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Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation

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Item specifics

Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Pages
200
Personalize
No
Publication Date
2017-05-09
Ex Libris
No
Personalized
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Features
New
Original Language
English
Inscribed
No
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780520286658

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520286650
ISBN-13
9780520286658
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234590853

Product Key Features

Book Title
Listening for the Secret : the Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Instruction & Study / Techniques, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Music
Author
Ulf Olsson
Book Series
Studies in the Grateful Dead Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2016-050507
Reviews
...presents a complex but rounded picture of a band that was both deeply traditional yet genuinely avant-garde, fiercely independent yet--at least in its latter years--undeniably mainstream, apolitical yet politically challenging.
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092/2
Table Of Content
Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Popular Avant-Garde? Renegotiating Tradition 2. Wave That Flag: An Apolitical Band 3. Crashes in Space: Aspects of Improvisation Coda: Listening for the Secret Discography Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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 .
LC Classification Number
ML421.G72O47 2017

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