Alison Fensterstock

About The Author

Alison Fensterstock is a DJ on WWOZ 90.7 FM and the editor of NPR Music's award-winning collection How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History, published by Harper One in 2024. She's been a staff music critic for the Times-Picayune and Gambit Weekly in New Orleans and written about music and culture for other places including Pitchfork, Rolling Stone. the Oxford American, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Her next book, a biography of New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews, will be published by the Historic New Orleans Collection Press in 2026.

Books by Alison Fensterstock

The Definition of Bounce

Between Ups and Downs in New Orleans

A lush portrait of New Orleans bounce, captured by 10th Ward Buck from inside the scene that shaped him.
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