Studying the Dead : the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, an informal history /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2013. |
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| Description: | xvi, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9327788 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: "If My Words Did Glow": Discoursing the Grateful Dead
- The Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus: Fifteen Years of a Discourse Community
- I. Voices
- 1. "The Sound of Thick Air": The Grateful Dead as Experimental Composers
- 2. The Taoist Perspective in "Weather Report Suite"
- 3. "In and Out of the Garden": Sacred and Profane in the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
- 4. Who Is Dionysus and Why Does He Keep Following Me Everywhere?
- 5. The Grateful Dead Parallax
- 6. "Sometimes You Get Shown the Light": An Ethnographer's Meditation on Boundaries, Barriers, and Awareness
- 7. Remembering the Dead: Prologue to a Memoir
- 8. "Trouble with You Is the Trouble with Me": Authenticity, Vitality, and Tribute Bands in the Age of Mechanical Convergence
- II. Conversations
- 9. Coming Out to Raise the Dead: The First Caucus
- 10. Deadhead Word Jam: The Second Caucus
- 11. By Popular Demand: The Third Caucus
- 12. "Raise That Flag": The Fourth Caucus
- 13. "Got to Callin' It Home": The Fifth Caucus
- 14. "With Thought Jewels Polished and Gleaming": The Sixth Caucus
- 15. "Spinning That Curious Sense of Our Own": The Seventh Caucus
- 16. Shall We Go?": The Eighth Caucus
- 17. "Never Had Such a Good Time": The Ninth Caucus
- 18. "When the Secrets All Are Told": The Tenth Caucus
- 19. "Seeking All That's Still Unsung": The Eleventh Caucus
- 20. "More Than Words Can Tell": The Twelfth Caucus
- 21. "Can't Talk to You without Talking to Me": The Thirteenth Caucus
- 22. "The Secret of This Tie That Binds": The Fourteenth Caucus
- 23. "All the Years Combine": The Fifteenth Caucus
- Conclusion: "Together, More or Less in Line": Improvising Interdisciplinarity in Grateful Dead Studies
- Appendix 1. "Head through the Thickets": Unbroken Chain, The First Grateful Dead Academic Symposium
- Appendix 2. A Selected Checklist of Grateful Dead Studies
- The Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus Area Chairs
- Credits
- Index
- About the Contributors
- About the Editor
