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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the David A. Ensminger Collection #20519, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David A. Ensminger in December 2016 (Acc. 103016).

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Processed by: Laura Hart and Anne Wells, January 2017

Encoded by: Laura Hart and Anne Wells, January 2017

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• Alternative rock music.
• Apples in Stereo (Musical group)
• Elliott, Jack, 1931-
• Ensminger, David A.
• Hardcore (Music)
• Oi music.
• Pedro the Lion (Musical group)
• Punk rock music.
• Rock concerts.
• Rock groups.
• Rock musicians.
• Waterboys (Musical group)
• Wedding Present (Musical group)
• Zines--Publishing--United States--History--20th century.
• Zines.

David A. Ensminger (1971- ) of Houston, Tex. is a writer, digital archivist of punk and vernacular culture, and college instructor at Lee College in Baytown, Tex. He is the author of four books: Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation (University Press of Mississippi, 2011), Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins (University of Texas Press, 2013), Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons (PM Press, 2013), and Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Ensminger is also a rock drummer who played with the Texas Biscuit Bombs.

Author David A. Ensminger's collection contains writings, punk rock and alternative culture zines, scattered correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, and posters, handbills, and flyers for punk rock, oi, and hardcore music shows in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Writings include poems, a draft of Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music and proof sheets for Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons. The collection also contains audio recordings of interviews conducted by Ensminger. Interviewees featured on the recordings include folk musician, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, as well as members of the independent rock bands, Apples in Stereo, Pedro the Lion, Waterboys, and Wedding Present. The recordings, which are on audiocassette, are most likely affiliated with Ensminger's publication, Mavericks of Sound.

• Oversize Paper (OPF-20519/1)
• Audiocassettes (FS-20519/1-4)