[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 29 Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 29 Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the 
Blues*
https://youtu.be/wNjq4Jsysrc

This episode is a discussion with Paul Buhle, Abigail Susik, and 
Penelope Rosemont 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.

*Bios:* 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.

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.

For more information on the book: 
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1723

Intro music: Krazy Kat Theme Song from “Slow Beau” (1927)

The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with Firefly 
Frequencies: https://fireflyfrequencies.org

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