Listening for the secret : the Grateful Dead and the politics of improvisation /

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Author / Creator:Olsson, Ulf, author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description:1 online resource (xii, 184 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in the Grateful Dead
Studies in the Grateful Dead ; 1.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910422
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ISBN:9780520961760
0520961765
9780520286641
0520286650
9780520286658
Notes:"Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint"--First page.
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 12, 2017).
Summary:Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group within discourses of the political, specifically the band's capacity to create a unique social environme.
Other form:Print version: Olsson, Ulf. Listening for the secret. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520286641
Standard no.:10.1525/9780520961760