Paul Garon
Encyclopedia
Paul Garon is an author
, writer
, and editor
, noted for his meditations on surrealist works, and also a noted scholar on blues
as a musical and cultural movement. He was one of the founding editors of Living Blues
magazine in 1970. Garon and his wife Beth currently operate Beasley Books, a bookstore in Chicago.
Author
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, writer
Writer
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, and editor
Editing
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, noted for his meditations on surrealist works, and also a noted scholar on blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
as a musical and cultural movement. He was one of the founding editors of Living Blues
Living Blues
Living Blues is a bi-monthly magazine focused on covering the African American blues tradition, and America's oldest blues periodical. The magazine was founded as a quarterly in Chicago in 1970 by Jim O'Neal and Amy van Singel. Alligator Records owner and founder Bruce Iglauer was also one of the...
magazine in 1970. Garon and his wife Beth currently operate Beasley Books, a bookstore in Chicago.
Works, Books, and References
- What's the Use of Walking if There's A Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their songs. with Gene Tomko
- Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, with Beth Garon
- Blues and the Poetic Spirit
- The Forecast Is Hot: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966-1976, with Franklin RosemontFranklin RosemontFranklin Rosemont was a poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group...
and Penelope RosemontPenelope RosemontPenelope Rosemont , attended Lake Forest College. She has been a painter, photographer, collagist and writer, and "graphic designer for [Arsenal/Surrealist Subversions] and other... - The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs
- Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts
- The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885-1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing
- "White Blues," Race Traitor 4 (1995), http://racetraitor.org/blues.html