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Perspectives on the Grateful Dead : critical writings / edited by Robert G. Weiner ; foreword by Rebecca G. Adams ; afterword by Steve Silberman.

Other author/creatorWeiner, Robert G., 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Descriptionxxiv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 55
Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 55. ^A466730
Contents Precisely how and why I didn't kill Jerry: ethnography, surrealism, and The millennium shows / Philip E. Baruth -- A pilot study in dream telepathy with the Grateful Dead / Stanley Krippner -- Legally dead: the Grateful Dead and American legal culture / David Fraser and Vaughan Black -- The Grateful Dead onstage in "world music" / Thomas Vennum, Jr. -- "No, but I've been to shows": accepting the Dead and rejecting the Deadheads / David L. Pelovitz -- Why are there so many Jewish Deadheads? / Douglas M. Gertner -- Bakhtinian carnival, corporate capital, and the last decade of the Dead / Brad E. Lucas -- Understanding "show" as a Deadhead speech situation / Natalie Dollar -- Is there a day of the month effect in "Beat it on down the line?" / Robert K. Toutkoushian -- The Grateful Dead experience: a factor analytic study of the personalities of people who identify with the Grateful Dead / William McCown and Wendy Dulaney -- "High time" and ambiguous harmonic function / Walter Everett -- Space, motion, and other musical metaphors / Shaugn O'Donnell -- The Grateful Dead legendstock: based on Alan Trist's Water of life-A tale of the Grateful Dead / Marjorie C. Luesebrink -- The Grateful Dead vs. the American dream? / Jason Palm -- The annotated "Ramble on rose": an installment in The annotated Grateful Dead lyrics (a work in progress) / David Dodd -- "Laid my proposition down/laid it on the line": gambling and the storyteller in Robert Hunter's lyrics / Anissa Craghead -- Grateful Dead: manifestations from the collective unconscious / Mary Goodenough -- Clinging to the edge of magic: shamanic aspects of the Grateful Dead / Nancy Reist -- The Grateful Dead as community / Rachel Wilgoren -- Deadhead tales of the supernatural: a folkloristic analysis / Revell Carr -- The piping of heaven: reckless musings on philosophical Taoism and the Grateful Dead phenomenon / Joseph P. Noonan III -- The ripple effect / Joseph Holt -- Afterword: the curriculum of joy / Steve Silberman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99010607
ISBN0313305692 (alk. paper)

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