Listening for the secret : the Grateful Dead and the politics of improvisation / Ulf Olsson.

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Olsson, Ulf [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description
xii, 184 pages ; 23 cm.

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    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.
    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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