Get shown the light : improvisation and transcendence in the music of the Grateful Dead / Michael Kaler.
"Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands-including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground-stretched out th...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Studies in the Grateful Dead (Duke University Press)
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| Physical Description: | x, 294 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- An Autobiographical Introduction
- The Grateful Dead: A Spiritually Motivated, Improvising Rock Band
- Setting the Scene
- How the Grateful Dead Learned to Jam
- Improvisational Tactics, 1965-
- Writing About Improvisation
- Other Improvising Rock Bands: A Comparative Look
- Music, Transcendent Spiritual Experience, and the Grateful Dead
- The Grateful Dead's Spiritual Context
- What They Did.