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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 UCāSanta 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.
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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Table of contents
- Halloween Costume Party
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Introduction
- Part I: About Dead Studies
- Chapter 1: The Education of a Deadhead
- Chapter 2: The Grateful Dead in the Academy
- Chapter 3: Thinking About the Dead
- Chapter 4: āThe Thousand Stories Have Come āRound to Oneā
- Chapter 5: Mapping the Deadhead Social Science Trip
- Part II: Music and Lyrics, Medium and Message
- Chapter 6: How the Grateful Dead Learned to Jam
- Chapter 7: āTerrapin Station,ā Postmodernism, and the Infinite
- Chapter 8: A Super-Metacantric Analysis of āPlaying in the Bandā
- Chapter 9: āAnd Closed My Eyes to Seeā
- Chapter 10: The Dead Play Egypt, Thirty Years Later
- Part III: The Deadhead Experience
- Chapter 11: Crowned Anarchy
- Chapter 12: The Grateful Dead Religious Experience
- Chapter 13: Shakedown Street
- Chapter 14: What Are Deadheads?
- Chapter 15: Terrapin Station Demographics and āDeadicationā
- Chapter 16: Autobiographical Memories of Grateful Dead Concerts
- Part IV: Society and History, Contexts and Currents
- Chapter 17: āAnd I Done Some Timeā
- Chapter 18: Nomadic Musical Audiences
- Chapter 19: Deconstructing Deadheads
- Chapter 20: The Psychedelic Experience, Contemporary Music, and the Grateful Dead
- Chapter 21: āBound to Cover Just a Little More Groundā
- Chapter 22: Jerry Garcia and Leadership Styles in the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
- Part V: Encore
- Chapter 23: Cold Roses
- Chapter 24: Tapes and Memories
- Chapter 25: One Last Wish
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors