[Minorcompositions] Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues 23/4 Online Event

[Minor Compositions]

*Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues*
April 23rd @ 8:15PM UK Time, online
Organized by Minor Compositions & COVER
https://www.facebook.com/events/1130845438773727

This event is a discussion with Paul Buhle and Abigail Susik about the 
newly released book Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected 
Writings on Popular Culture. This collection brings together legendary 
Chicago surrealist Franklin Rosemont’s writings on popular culture over 
a period of more than forty years.

Rosemont, a self-taught scholar, poet, and artist, playfully uncovers 
the sometimes hidden-in-plain-sight writers and artists who managed to 
be both popular, vernacular, and in their own ways profoundly 
revolutionary. Rosemont skillfully weaves together what most would 
regard as unlikely threads. The labor culture of the nineteenth-century 
anarchist movement gains new meaning when connected to the famed Chicago 
musicians of blues and jazz. His interests from childhood extended from 
his favorite animators and comic art – Mel Blanc and Tex Avery, Scrooge 
McDuck, Mighty Mouse, Krazy Kat, Smokey Stover, and Powerhouse Pepper – 
to nineteenth-century drug-taker Benjamin Paul Blood, or the barely 
remembered best-selling utopian writer Edward Bellamy. Palindromes and 
other wordplay counted along with radical environmentalism, modern dance 
alongside the “mad” self-taught writer-artist Henry Darger.

This event will be recorded to be released as an episode of the Minor 
Compositions podcast. To register for this event email coveres at essex.ac.uk

Bios: Abigail Susik is the author of Surrealist Sabotage and the War on 
Work, editor of Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the 
Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964–1967, and coeditor of the volumes 
Surrealism and Film After 1945: Absolutely Modern Mysteries and Radical 
Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance. Susik is a founding 
board member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism 
and joint editor of the Bloomsbury Transnational Surrealism Series. She 
lives in Portland, OR.

Paul Buhle has written, edited, or coedited more than four dozen books, 
including twenty graphic novels, beginning with Wobblies! He founded the 
SDS journal Radical America and the Oral History of the American Left 
archive at New York University. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of 
the American Left, a former senior lecturer at Brown University, and the 
authorized biographer of C.L.R. James. He lives in Providence, RI.
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