Reading the Grateful Dead
Subtitle: a critical survey
By: edited by Nicholas G. Meriwether
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780810883710; 9780810883727
Subjects: Rock music; Rock musicians; History and cricitism; Biography; Grateful Dead (Musical group)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.