Grateful Dead in Concert, The

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Tuning Up
• Foreword: The Grateful Dead Phenomenon
• STANLEY KRIPPNER     
• Preface: Kaleidoscopic Entry to the Show     
• Introduction: “Shall We Go?”     
• First Set: Musical and Lyrical Elements of Grateful Dead Improvisation
• Non-Systematic Thoughts About Improvisation
• CRISTIAN AMIGO     
• Mandalas and the Dead
• GRAEME M. BOONE     
• The Eccentric Revolutions of Phil Lesh
• BRENT WOOD     
• American Chaos: Charles Ives and the Grateful Dead
• SHAUGN O’DONNELL     
• “Mr. Charlie Told Me So”: Heidegger and the Dead’s Early Assimilation to the Technology of the Blues
• DAVID MALVINNI     
• Dark Star Mandala
• GRAEME M. BOONE     
• “Where All the Pages Are My Days”: Metacantric Moments in Deadhead Lyrical Experience
• REVELL CARR     
• “Not Just a Change of Style”: Reading Workingman’s Dead as an American Commentary with Americana Roots
• ERIN MCCOY     
• Second Set: Some Philosophical Contours of Grateful Dead Improvisation
• Improvised Philosophy
• ALAN TRIST     
• “Pouring Its Light Into Ashes”: Exploring the Multiplicity of Becoming in Grateful Dead Improvisation
• JIM TUEDIO     
• “Searching for the Sound”: Grateful Dead Music and Interpretive Transformation
• JASON KEMP WINFREE     
• Plato’s Pharmakon: Grateful Dead Concerts and the Politics of Getting High
• ELIZABETH CARROLL     
• When “Reason Tatters”: Nietzsche and the Grateful Dead on Living a Healthy Life
• STAN SPECTOR     
• The Other One and the Other: Moral Lessons from a Reluctant Teacher
• STEVEN GIMBEL     
• Innocence and Experience in the Grateful Dead: A Reading of Stuart Hampshire
• NICHOLAS MERIWETHER     
• Third Set: Experiencing Community Through Grateful Dead Improvisation
• Modeling Improvisation
• MARY GOODENOUGH     
• “Mysteries Dark and Vast”: Grateful Dead Concerts and Initiation into the Sublime
• ERIC K. SILVERMAN     
• Bears and Flags: The Grateful Dead’s America and Bohemian Nationalism
• JAY WILLIAMS     
• Improvising Community: A Hermeneutic Analysis of Deadheads and Virtual Communities
• GARY BURNETT     
• Strategic Improvisation: Management Lessons from the Dead
• BARRY BARNES     
• Cultural Communication Codes Among Deadheads: A Chronological Account of Communicative Improvisation
• NATALIE J. DOLLAR     
• Examining Grateful Dead Improvisation as a Catalyst for Creating Sustained Communitas
• AMANDA DIEDERICH-HIRSH     
• “I Can’t Do Anything but Lie”: Studying Deadheads While Wearing Simmelian Lenses
• REBECCA G. ADAMS     
• Encore
• The Thing Is the Thing Is the Thing Is the Thing Is There Is No Thing
• CHRISTIAN CRUMLISH     
• All His Children Grew and Grew (Who Killed Uncle John?)
• DAVID GANS     
• Greensleeves
• The Grateful Dead Came to Our House One Day (with 20 People and a Bottle of LSD): A Story About Discovering the Power of Channeling Healing Energy
• JEAN MILLAY     
• Contributors     
• Index