{"product_id":"9781496848420-roots-punk","title":"Roots Punk","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Visual and Oral History\u003cbr\u003ePunk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring interviews and over one hundred images, this volume focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labour ballads.\u003cbr\u003ePunk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, \u003ci\u003eRoots Punk: A Visual and Oral History \u003c\/i\u003eby longtime music journalist and author David A. Ensminger focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labor ballads. This engagement transformed the notion of punk to include a wide array of vintage source material that seems more aligned with bolo ties and Stetsons than Doc Martens and safety pins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ensminger explores the music’s aesthetics, traits, and themes. He contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes roots punk’s hybrid nature as well as its diverse, queer-inclusive, and multicultural strains. By painting a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the genre from its earliest incarnation, he forms a kind of people’s history of the movement. \u003ci\u003eRoots Punk\u003c\/i\u003e features original interviews with members of Minutemen, MDC, the Dicks, the Plimsouls, Tex and the Horseheads, Dils\/Rank and File, X, the Flesh Eaters, Beatnigs, Alejandro Escovedo, Robert \"El Vez\" Lopez, Blasters, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether covering sarcastic novelty forms or sincere embraces, Ensminger reveals and revels in a punk tradition lined with blues records, acoustic ballads, country, and hillbilly romp. In a time of growing conformity, replication, and commercialization, roots punk (sometimes dubbed cow-punk) offers a tantalizing revitalization and reimagination of the American songbook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55143839957366,"sku":"9781496848420","price":25.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38245794_5f5f59e8-e0e8-4953-b219-c0a50a6441fb.jpg?v=1763843722","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496848420-roots-punk","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}