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Reading the Grateful Dead
A Critical Survey
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2012
Summary
Since the 1960s, the Grateful Dead have welcomed and participated in academic work on the band, encouraging scrutiny from a wide variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, from anthropology to sociology. Interest in Dead studies is growing across the country and around the world, and UC–Santa Cruz’s Grateful Dead Archive continues to attract a high level of attention.
In Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey, Nicholas G. Meriwether has assembled essays that examine the development of Grateful Dead studies. This volume features work from three generations of scholars, including a wide variety of perspectives on the band and its cultural significance. From insiders like lyricist John Perry Barlow and longtime band publicist and historian Dennis McNally to well-known Deadhead scholars such as Barry Barnes and Rebecca Adams, the contributors to this volume offer valuable insights into the Grateful Dead phenomenon.
No other Dead book focuses on the growth and development of the discourse, contains such a range of critical approaches, nor features work by luminaries Stan Krippner and Barnes, among others. The four sections of the book describe aspects and approaches to Dead studies, along with overviews of how the discipline evolved and what it comprises today. This collection will appeal to scholars, students, and teachers interested in Dead studies and fans of the band.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8371-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8372-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
322
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Halloween Costume Party No access
Acknowledgments No access
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Introduction No access
Ch01. The Education of a Deadhead No access
Ch02. The Grateful Dead in the Academy No access
Ch03. Thinking About the Dead No access
Ch04. “The Thousand Stories Have Come ’Round to One” No access
Ch05. Mapping the Deadhead Social Science Trip No access
Ch06. How the Grateful Dead Learned to Jam No access
Ch07. “Terrapin Station,” Postmodernism, and the Infinite No access
Ch08. A Super-Metacantric Analysis of “Playing in the Band” No access
Ch09. “And Closed My Eyes to See” No access
Ch10. The Dead Play Egypt, Thirty Years Later No access
Ch11. Crowned Anarchy No access
Ch12. The Grateful Dead Religious Experience No access
Ch13. Shakedown Street No access
Ch14. What Are Deadheads? No access
Ch15. Terrapin Station Demographics and “Deadication” No access
Ch16. Autobiographical Memories of Grateful Dead Concerts No access
Ch17. “And I Done Some Time” No access
Ch18. Nomadic Musical Audiences No access
Ch19. Deconstructing Deadheads No access
Ch20. The Psychedelic Experience, Contemporary Music, and the Grateful Dead No access
Ch21. “Bound to Cover Just a Little More Ground” No access
Ch22. Jerry Garcia and Leadership Styles in the Grateful Dead Phenomenon No access
Ch23. Cold Roses No access
Ch24. Tapes and Memories No access
Ch25. One Last Wish No access
Index No access Pages 307 - 314
About the Editor No access Pages 315 - 316
About the Contributors No access Pages 317 - 322
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