Listening for the Secret - The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in the Grateful Dead, 1
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Ulf Olsson
Editors:	Nicholas Meriwether
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28665-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Music > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-28665-0
Barcode:	9780520286658

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