| Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation Volume 1 Contributor(s): Olsson, Ulf (Author), Meriwether, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520286642 ISBN-13: 9780520286641 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Individual Composer & Musician |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| LCCN: 2016050507 |
| Series: Studies in the Grateful Dead |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 environment. Analyzing the Grateful Dead's music as well as the forms of subjectivity and practices that the band generated, Olsson examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Ultimately, Listening for the Secret is about how the Grateful Dead Phenomenon was possible in the first place, what its social and aesthetic conditions of possibility were, and its results. This is the first book in a new series, Studies in the Grateful Dead. |
