Reading the Grateful Dead : a critical survey / edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Scarecrow Press,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Grateful dead : a critical survey. |
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Contents:
- Studying the Dead. The education of a Deadhead : a letter from a novelist / Matthew Armstrong ; The Grateful Dead in the academy / Dennis McNally ; Thinking about the Dead : amateur anthropology, the human comedy, and making good ancestors / John Perry Barlow ; The thousand stories have come 'round to one' : studying the Grateful Dead phenomenon / Nicholas G. Meriwether ; Mapping the Deadhead social science trip / Natalie Dollar
- Music and lyrics, medium and message. How the Grateful Dead learned to Jam Michael Kaler ; 'Terrapin Station,' postmodernism, and the infinite / Jon Ney ; A super-metacantric analysis of 'Playing in the Band' / Robert H. Trudeau ; 'And closed my eyes to see' : buddhist resonances in the lyrics of the Grateful Dead / Ryan Slesinger ; The Dead play Egypt, thirty years later : myth, memory, and marketing / Nicholas Meriwether
- The Deadhead experience. Crowned anarchy : songs, segues, and the golden road to unlimited devotion / Joseph Holt ; The Grateful Dead religious experience / David Bryan ; Shakedown Street : a Benjaminian approach to the Grateful Dead / James Revell Carr ; What are Deadheads? An informal survey / Alex Kolker ; Terrapin Station demographics and 'deadication' : the Furthur Festival '98 data / Rebecca G. Adams ; Autobiographical memories of Grateful Dead concerts : two descriptive approaches / Mark E. Mattson
- Society and history, contexts and currents. 'And I done some time' : Bobby Petersen and the Grateful Dead / Christian Crumlish ; Nomadic musical audiences : a historical precedent for the Grateful Dead / Jacob A. Cohen ; Deconstructing Deadheads / Mark Tursi ; The psychedelic experience, contemporary music, and the Grateful Dead : a 1969 study revisited / Stanley Krippner ; 'Bound to cover just a little more ground' : a Heideggerian reflection on the Grateful Dead / Stanley Spector ; Jerry Garcia and leadership styles in the Grateful Dead phenomenon / Barry Barnes
- Encore. Cold roses : a skeleton key to the Grateful Dead in the music of Ryan Adam / Matthew C. Armstrong ; Tapes and memories : a letter from a Latter-day fan / Jacob A. Cohen ; 'One last wish' / Jon Ney.