These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

One such authority on the antifolk movement is Jeffrey Lewis. Notable for his musicology lesson-come song ‘Antifolk Complete History of Punk Rock’, Lewis illustrates his authority on the topic with an ...

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