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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 29 Surrealism, Bugs Bunny,
and the Blues</b><br>
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This episode is a discussion with Paul Buhle, Abigail Susik, and
Penelope Rosemont about the newly released book <i>Surrealism,
Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture</i>.
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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<b>Bios:</b> 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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Abigail Susik is the author of Surrealist Sabotage and the <i>War
on Work, editor of Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical
Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement, 1964–1967</i>,
and coeditor of the volumes <i>Surrealism and Film After 1945:
Absolutely Modern Mysteries</i> and <i>Radical Dreams:
Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance</i>. 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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For more information on the book:
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Intro music: Krazy Kat Theme Song from “Slow Beau” (1927) <br>
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The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with
Firefly Frequencies: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org">https://fireflyfrequencies.org</a><br>
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