John Encarnacao is a composer, performer and educator. Recent projects include albums with song-based groups The Nature Strip and Warmer, and improvising trio Espadrille, as well as commissions for the theatre and chamber music. He lectures in music performance, composition, and musicology at the University of Western Sydney. An archive of John's recordings is being built at johnencarnacao.bandcamp.com.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Frames: New folk and analysis; Institutional factors and the writing of history; Genre: folk and punk. Part 2 The Old Plank Road: Folk antecedents: the Anthology of American Folk Music; Folk and rock antecedents: the 1960s; Punk aesthetics 1: outsider music; Punk aesthetics 2: lo-fi. Part 3 New Folk: First stirrings; ’Freak folk’; Free folk; Conclusion; Bibliography; Discography; Index.

John Encarnacao is a composer, performer and educator. Recent projects include albums with song-based groups The Nature Strip and Warmer, and improvising trio Espadrille, as well as commissions for the theatre and chamber music. He lectures in music performance, composition, and musicology at the University of Western Sydney. An archive of John's recordings is being built at johnencarnacao.bandcamp.com.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Frames: New folk and analysis; Institutional factors and the writing of history; Genre: folk and punk. Part 2 The Old Plank Road: Folk antecedents: the Anthology of American Folk Music; Folk and rock antecedents: the 1960s; Punk aesthetics 1: outsider music; Punk aesthetics 2: lo-fi. Part 3 New Folk: First stirrings; ’Freak folk’; Free folk; Conclusion; Bibliography; Discography; Index.

John Encarnacao is a composer, performer and educator. Recent projects include albums with song-based groups The Nature Strip and Warmer, and improvising trio Espadrille, as well as commissions for the theatre and chamber music. He lectures in music performance, composition, and musicology at the University of Western Sydney. An archive of John's recordings is being built at johnencarnacao.bandcamp.com.

• Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Frames: New folk and analysis; Institutional factors and the writing of history; Genre: folk and punk. Part 2 The Old Plank Road: Folk antecedents: the Anthology of American Folk Music; Folk and rock antecedents: the 1960s; Punk aesthetics 1: outsider music; Punk aesthetics 2: lo-fi. Part 3 New Folk: First stirrings; ’Freak folk’; Free folk; Conclusion; Bibliography; Discography; Index.