Perspectives on the Grateful Dead
Subtitle: critical writings
By: edited by Robert G. Weiner ; foreword by Rebecca G. Adams ; afterword by Steve Silberman
Contributors: Weiner, Robert G., 1966-
Series: Contributions to the study of music and dance -- no. 55
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Praeger
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Grateful Dead (Musical group); Deadheads (Music fans) -- United States; Rock music -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Precisely how and why I didn't kill Jerry: ethnography, surrealism, and The millennium shows / Philip E. Baruth; title: A pilot study in dream telepathy with the Grateful Dead / Stanley Krippner; title: Legally dead: the Grateful Dead and American legal culture / David Fraser and Vaughan Black; title: The Grateful Dead onstage in "world music" / Thomas Vennum, Jr.; title: "No, but I've been to shows": accepting the Dead and rejecting the Deadheads / David L. Pelovitz; title: Why are there so many Jewish Deadheads? / Douglas M. Gertner; title: Bakhtinian carnival, corporate capital, and the last decade of the Dead / Brad E. Lucas; title: Understanding "show" as a Deadhead speech situation / Natalie Dollar; title: Is there a day of the month effect in "Beat it on down the line?" / Robert K. Toutkoushian; title: The Grateful Dead experience: a factor analytic study of the personalities of people who identify with the Grateful Dead / William McCown and Wendy Dulaney; title: "High time" and ambiguous harmonic function / Walter Everett; title: Space, motion, and other musical metaphors / Shaugn O'Donnell; title: The Grateful Dead legendstock: based on Alan Trist's Water of life-A tale of the Grateful Dead / Marjorie C. Luesebrink; title: The Grateful Dead vs. the American dream? / Jason Palm; title: The annotated "Ramble on rose": an installment in The annotated Grateful Dead lyrics (a work in progress) / David Dodd; title: "Laid my proposition down/laid it on the line": gambling and the storyteller in Robert Hunter's lyrics / Anissa Craghead; title: Grateful Dead: manifestations from the collective unconscious / Mary Goodenough; title: Clinging to the edge of magic: shamanic aspects of the Grateful Dead / Nancy Reist; title: The Grateful Dead as community / Rachel Wilgoren; title: Deadhead tales of the supernatural: a folkloristic analysis / Revell Carr; title: The piping of heaven: reckless musings on philosophical Taoism and the Grateful Dead phenomenon / Joseph P. Noonan III; title: The ripple effect / Joseph Holt; title: Afterword: the curriculum of joy / Steve Silberman