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Listening for the secret : the Grateful Dead and the politics of improvisation / Ulf Olsson.
Author
Olsson, Ulf
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description
xii, 184 pages ; 23 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML421.G72 O47 2017
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Improvisation (Music)
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Social aspects
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Rock music
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Social aspects
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History
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20th century
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Grateful Dead (Musical group)
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Series
Studies in the Grateful Dead ; 1.
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Studies in the Grateful Dead ; 1
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Summary note
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 is a unique phenomenon through which to better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Author Ulf Olsson marshals the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, and others to place the group within a political discourse, focusing on the band's capacity to create a unique social environment. Analyzing the Grateful Dead's music, as well as the forms of subjectivity that the band generated, Olsson examines the wider significance of the politics of improvisation. -- from back cover.
Notes
"Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint"--First page.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178), discography (pages 163-164), and index.
Contents
Popular avant-garde? : renegotiating tradition
Wave that flag : an apolitical band
Crashes in space : aspects of improvisation
Coda : listening for the secret.
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ISBN
9780520286641 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
0520286642 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9780520286658 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
0520286650 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016050507
OCLC
961308620
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