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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael KalerPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781478020349ISBN 10: 1478020342 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 17 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix An Autobiographical Introduction 1 1. The Grateful Dead: A Spiritually Motivated, Improvising Rock Band 5 2. Setting the Scene: Where They Came From 22 3. How the Grateful Dead Learned to Jam: Building a Framework for Improvisation 45 4. Improvisational Tactics, 1965–1974: Roads Taken, and Some That Were Not Taken 73 5. Writing About Improvisation: Approaches to Understanding Spontaneous Playing 125 6. Other Improvising Rock Bands: Similar Directions, Different Motivations 139 7. Music, Transcendent Spiritual Experience, and the Grateful Dead: How They Came Together 161 8. The Grateful Dead’s Spiritual Context: The Acid Tests and Afterwards 185 9. What They Did: How the Grateful Dead Joined Their Musical and Spiritual Imperatives 201 Appendix. Grateful Dead Personnel and Performances 237 Notes 241 Bibliography 265 Index 281ReviewsMichael Kaler demonstrates that the pursuit of something esoteric, essential, and religious in nature drove the Grateful Dead's artistic path. Persuasively arguing that the Dead believed that improvisational music has the power to evoke transcendence and foster collective consciousness, Get Shown the Light makes an important contribution to the growing body of work that interrogates the relationship between music, religiosity, and American culture. -- Ariella Werden-Greenfield, coeditor of * This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity * Author InformationMichael Kaler is Associate Professor, teaching stream, at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy at the University of Toronto Mississauga and author of Flora Tells a Story: The Apocalypse of Paul and Its Contexts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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