Jaime Monzon
San Antonio’s Hickoids will carry out at Sunday’s book-release occasion.
Longtime rock journalist and writer David A. Ensminger will rejoice the discharge of his new ebook Roots Punk: A Visible and Oral Historical past with appropriately raucous musical accompaniment this Sunday at San Antonio’s Flagship Data.
Courtesy Photograph / College Press of Mississippi
Longtime music journalist and writer David A. Ensminger’s newest ebook chronicles the roots punk motion.
Within the ebook, Ensminger — an teacher at Lee School in Baytown — explains how punk merged with roots music kinds starting from nation and blues to reggae and jazz to kind a various, multicultural motion that compelled a “reimagination of the American songbook.” Issued by College Press of Mississippi, the ebook is introduced as a folks’s historical past and contains interviews with members of teams as vast ranging because the Minutemen, X, the Blasters, MDC and the Plimsouls.
Protecting true to Roots Punk’s subject material, the free, all-ages occasion will embrace performances from a lineup of San Antonio and Austin acts that embody the style’s sound — Hickoids, Texacala Jones of Tex and the Horseheads and Walter Witosky and the Soiled Canine Dick Eaters.
Ensminger will conduct a Q&A at 3 p.m. and will likely be available to autograph copies of the ebook.
Flagship Data is positioned at retail area, rehearsal and recording studio the Corn Pound, 6336 Montgomery Drive. South Texas pop-culture museum Tex Pop — one other Corn Pound tenant — is co-sponsoring the present.
Free, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, Flagship Data/Tex Pop on the Corn Pound, 6336 Montgomery Drive, fb.com/flagshiprecords.
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