Reebee Garofalo is an American musician, activist and music scholar known for his work organizing street festivals such as the HONK! Fest and writing books about popular music.[1] Garofalo created a Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart which was reproduced in Edward Tufte's book Visual Explanations.
Garofalo earned an EdD from Harvard University in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice in 1974. He was a founding member of Massachusetts Rock Against Racism in 1979.[2][3] The group, responding to a request from students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School created a multimedia presentation called "Rock and Rap" using music and local DJs to highlight how music could bring people together.[4] The group aligned with other progressive organizations and the black community in the 1980s and worked with the Boston Public Schools create video programming that was "youth-oriented anti-racist programming" which was shown in hundreds of thousands of homes in the greater Boston area.[4]
Garofalo taught at the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston for thirty-three years and is currently professor emeritus.
Bibliography
Rock 'n Roll Is Here to Pay: The History & Politics of the Music Industry (1980, with Steve Chapple) ISBN9780882293950
Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music & Mass Movements (1991) ISBN9780896084278
