<P>The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound syste
Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness (Studies in the Grateful Dead)
β Scribed by John Brackett
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 233
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Becoming Live
1. βTo Capture that Special Feeling": Recorded (and Recording) Liveness (The Warner Bros. Years, 1966β1973)
2. βThe Next Best Thing to Being there": Tapes, Taping, and an Alternative Aesthetic of Recorded Liveness
3. A Time of Reckoning: New Approaches to Producing and Marketing Liveness (The 1980s, Part 1)
4. βThat Quintessential Spirit of the Band": βTouch of Grey,β the βBetty Boards,β and the Rebirth of the Dead (The 1980s, Part 2)
5. βThe Live Feel of a Tape": From the Vault, Dickβs Picks, and the Language(s) of Liveness
6. Post-Dead: βObstinately Physical,β βVaporous Cargo,β and the Material Remains of Liveness
Conclusion: Memento Mori
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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