# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-joans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:43:19.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-joans"
name: "Ted Joans"
slug: "ted-joans"
description: "Theodore Joans was an American beatnik, surrealist, painter, filmmaker, collageist, jazz poet and jazz trumpeter who spent long periods of time in Paris while also traveling through Africa. His complex body of work stands at the intersection of several avant-garde artistic streams. He was the author of more than 30 books of poetry, prose, and collage; among them Black Pow-Wow, Beat Funky Jazz Poems, Afrodisia, Jazz is Our Religion, Double Trouble, WOW and Teducation. In 2001 he was the recipient of Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award."
tagline: "American artist (1928-2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Ted_Joans.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-07-04"
deathDate: "2003-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.487798666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Ted Joans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Joans"
    title: "Ted Joans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Joans"
    title: "Ted Joans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Joans"
    title: "Ted Joans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Joans"
    title: "Ted Joans"
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  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Joans"
    title: "Ted Joans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Джоанс, Тед"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6cc9a32-1893-4a29-84b2-b913e51d26c5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump