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<p><b>Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues</b><br>
April 23rd @ 8:15PM UK Time, online<br>
Organized by Minor Compositions & COVER<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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This event will be recorded to be released as an episode of the
Minor Compositions podcast. To register for this event email
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:coveres@essex.ac.uk">coveres@essex.ac.uk</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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