Longtime rock journalist and author David A. Ensminger will celebrate the release of his new book Roots Punk: A Visual and Oral History with appropriately raucous musical accompaniment this Sunday at San Antonio’s Flagship Records. In the book, Ensminger \u2014 an instructor at Lee College in Baytown \u2014 explains how punk merged with roots music styles ranging from country and blues to reggae and jazz to form a diverse, multicultural movement that forced a “reimagination of the American songbook.”\u00a0Issued by\u00a0University Press of Mississippi, the book is presented as a people’s history and includes interviews with members of groups as wide ranging as the Minutemen, X, the Blasters, MDC and the Plimsouls. Keeping true to Roots Punk’s subject matter, the free, all-ages event will include performances from a lineup of San Antonio and Austin acts that embody the genre’s sound \u2014 Hickoids, Texacala Jones of Tex and the Horseheads and Walter Witosky and the Dirty Dog Dick Eaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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