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  • Left of the Dial

    Conversations with Punk Icons

    by David Ensminger ...
    Left of the Dial features interviews by musical journalist, folklorist, educator, and musician David Ensminger with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more. Ensminger probes the legacy of punk’s sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its ongoing DIY traditions, its rupture of cultural and social norms, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mojo Hand

    The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

    by Timothy J. O'Brien, David Ensminger ...
    Series series Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
    In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War, and lesbianism, performed in a unique, eccentric, and spontaneous style of guitar playing that inspired ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Mavericks of Sound

    Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music

    by David A. Ensminger ...
    In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous shifts in the music world. As the success of the concerts at Austin City Limits have revealed, the fan ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Out of the Basement

    From Cheap Trick to DIY Punk in Rockford, IL, 1973-2005

    by David A. Ensminger ...
    Small town America built the punk rock revolution; but big city scenes have gotten all the coverage.No longer! Out of the Basement is a bracing, candid, democratic, and cutting edge portrayal of a rust belt city full of rebel kids making DIY music despite the odds. It combines oral history, brutally honest memoir, music history, and a sense of blunt poetics to capture the ethos of life in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Punk

    Protest and Revolt from the Streets

    by David A. Ensminger ...
    Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain—from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass—offered alternative political convictions and subversive lifestyle choices, the media has often deemed punk a threat. Bands like ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Punk Women

    40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock

    Edited by David A. Ensminger ...
    In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There is a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from the hardcore music scene but this anthology challenges that notion and shows that women have still been able to overcome, kick ass, and shred alongside the best of them. Biographies, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roots Punk

    A Visual and Oral History

    by David A. Ensminger ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring original interviews and over one hundred images, Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History by 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, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Visual Vitriol

    The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation

    by David A. Ensminger ...
    Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils, and graffiti. This discovery leads him to an examination of the often-overlooked presence of African ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Story of Black Flag

    by Stevie Chick ...
    Black Flag were the pioneers of American Hardcore, and this is their blood-spattered story.Formed in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1978, for eight brutal years they made and played brilliant, ugly, no-holds-barred music on a self-appointed touring circuit of America’s clubs, squats, and community halls. They fought with everybody: the police, the record industry and even their own fans. They ... Read more

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  • Under the Big Black Sun

    A Personal History of L.A. Punk

    by John Doe, Tom DeSavia ...
    Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there. The book shares chapter-length tales from the authors ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Scattershot

    Life, Music, Elton, and Me

    by Bernie Taupin ...
    In this New York Times bestseller, experience the evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and long-time collaborator of Elton John.“I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad, or ... Read more

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  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

    A Memoir

    by Carrie Brownstein ...
    From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music.Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the ... Read more

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