Paul Garon Explained
Paul Arthur Garon (July 6, 1942 – July 26, 2022) was an American author, writer, and editor, noted for his meditations on surrealist works, and also a noted scholar on blues as a musical and cultural movement.[1]
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a doctor and a sociology graduate,[2] Garon settled in Chicago and was one of the founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group in the mid-1960s.[3]
Garon was one of the founding editors of Living Blues magazine in 1970. He once wrote that "blues represents a fusion of music and poetry accomplished at a very high emotional temperature".[4] Amongst his other publications, Garon was the biographer of Peetie Wheatstraw.[5] Later, Garon and his wife Beth operated Beasley Books together, a rare book business in Chicago. He was also a founding partner of the Chicago Rare Book Center, in Evanston, Illinois.
Garon died on July 26, 2022, at the age of 80.[2]
Works
- What's the Use of Walking if There's A Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes and Their Songs. with Gene Tomko, 2015.
- Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, with Beth Garon, 1992.
- Blues and the Poetic Spirit, 2001.
- The Forecast Is Hot: Tracts & Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States 1966–1976, with Franklin Rosemont and Penelope Rosemont, 1997.
- The Devil's Son-In-Law: The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw and His Songs, 2003.
- Rana Mozelle: Surrealist Texts, 1978.
- The Charles H. Kerr Company Archives 1885–1985: A Century of Socialist and Labor Publishing, 1985.
- "White Blues," Race Traitor 4 (1995)[6]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Prahlad, Anand . The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: G-P . . 9780313330377 . 498 . January 1, 2006 . July 22, 2019 . Google Books.
- https://lestempsdublues.com/2022/07/27/paul-garon-1942-2022/ Daniel Leon, "Paul Garon, 1942–2022", Les temps du blues, July 27, 2022
- https://books.google.com/books?id=QTfWDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Paul+garon%22+1942&pg=RA1-PA315 "Garon, Paul", The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Michael Richardson et al. (eds.), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Book: Robert Palmer (American writer)
. Deep Blues. Robert Palmer. 1981 . Robert Palmer (American writer). Penguin Books. 19. 978-0-14-006223-6.
- Book: The Devil's Music. Giles Oakley. Da Capo Press. 171/3. 978-0-306-80743-5. 1997.
- Web site: RACE TRAITOR – White Blues. Racetraitor.org. February 3, 2019.
