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The Church needs the arts, as they are a way to access the soul. As
Augustine says, one who sings, prays twice. Recent popes have given
the impression that the Church is again interested in the way the
arts draw us into ourselves, where we are able to contact the
mystery that is God. Art for Church is a personal and professional
expression of how that renewed interest plays itself out. This text
takes its name from the "cloth of gold," an image related to
centuries of experimentation by the medieval and Renaissance worlds
as they sought an alchemical solution to worship. There previously
existed a centuries-long search for how to make golden cloth that
would praise God; this pursuit distinctly resembles the quest of
the artist to produce the perfect product. Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
and his papal fraternity had set the tone, too often a confining
one, for such an alchemical quest in the Church. Unfortunately, the
music in the artist's heart is not always the same as that in the
heart of the pastor. Pope Paul VI eventually did apologize for the
"cloak of lead" he imposed upon artists creating works in the name
of the Church. He also came to admit that artistic freedom is a
necessary part of the process when the Church seeks the works of
artists. In this book, McNally offers insights on how much freedom
is necessary for art to flourish in the service of the Church and
just what is at stake if that freedom is curtailed. Art for Church
contains over 120 original paintings and 30 original poems by the
author.
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes.
Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead’s early days in late-sixties San Francisco–an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey’s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley “Bear” Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead’s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation.
Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.
From the Hardcover edition.
Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs,
music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing,
and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's
rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years
surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through
essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material
cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and
social change. Presenting key cultural artifacts of the time,
Summer of Love introduces and explores the events and experiences
that today define this dynamic era. With essays by Victoria Binder,
Dennis McNally, and Joel Selvin. Published in association with the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San
Francisco: April 8-August 20, 2017
Jack Kerouac-"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the'60s
counterculture, ground-breaking author-was a complex and compelling
man: a star athlete with a literary bent a spontaneous writer
vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful
readership a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist a lover of
freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism. Desolate Angel follows
Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell,
Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen
Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a
four-way friendship that became a lifelong obsession. Kerouac's
frenetic cross-country journeys, experiments with drugs and
sexuality, travels to Mexico and Tangier, and years of failure,
frustration, and depression are recounted with detail and
sensitivity. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait
of a man and artist set against an extraordinary social backdrop.
Released by the Jerry Garcia Family estate and made available to
the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid,
intimate interviews with Jerry Garcia ever published. Here, Garcia
speaks openly about everything from growing up in the San Francisco
Bay Area and his first encounters with early R&B to his
thoughts on songwriting, LSD, the Beats and Neal Cassady,
government, movies, and more. Illustrated with family photographs,
ephemera, and Jerry's artwork, Jerry of Jerry presents uniquely
poignant, unguarded, and astute moments, showing a side of Jerry
that even his biggest fans have not known.
The Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and
cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Despite having few
mainstream hits, from 1965 to 1995 the Dead blazed an extraordinary
incendiary trail across the rock firmament. Exploding from the
roots and folk scene of the early 1960s, the Dead went on to
provide the soundtrack to the Dionysiac revels of the burgeoning
counterculture. Their history is the history of the modern American
Revolution in the years of rage and rebellion, which were to change
the country forever. Here is the band's full story. Not just a
brilliant rock biography, it forms a compelling portrait of
America's West Coast from the halcyon days of Magic Buses and Merry
Pranksters to the corporate dawn of the twenty-first century.
On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant
social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the
sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of
American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by
studying what the Western European culture learned from African
American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the
minstrel era to Bob Dylan.The book begins with America's first
great social critic, Henry David Thoreau, and his fundamental
source of social philosophy:---his profound commitment to freedom,
to abolitionism and to African-American culture. Continuing with
Mark Twain, through whom we can observe the rise of minstrelsy,
which he embraced, and his subversive satirical masterpiece
Huckleberry Finn. While familiar, the book places them into a newly
articulated historical reference that shines new light and reveals
a progression that is much greater than the sum of its individual
parts.As the first post-Civil War generation of black Americans
came of age, they introduced into the national culture a trio of
musical forms ragtime, blues, and jazz that would, with their
derivations, dominate popular music to this day. Ragtime introduced
syncopation and become the cutting edge of the modern 20th century
with popular dances. The blues would combine with syncopation and
improvisation and create jazz. Maturing at the hands of Louis
Armstrong, it would soon attract a cluster of young white musicians
who came to be known as the Austin High Gang, who fell in love with
black music and were inspired to play it themselves. In the
process, they developed a liberating respect for the diversity of
their city and country, which they did not see as exotic, but
rather as art. It was not long before these young white rebels were
the masters of American pop music  big band Swing.As Bop succeeded
Swing, and Rhythm and Blues followed, each had white followers like
the Beat writers and the first young rock and rollers. Even popular
white genres like the country music of Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter
Family reflected significant black influence. In fact, the
theoretical separation of American music by race is not accurate.
This biracial fusion achieved an apotheosis in the early work of
Bob Dylan, born and raised at the northern end of the same
Mississippi River and Highway 61 that had been the birthplace of
much of the black music he would study.As the book reveals, the
connection that began with Thoreau and continued for over 100 years
was a cultural evolution where, at first individuals, and then
larger portions of society, absorbed the culture of those at the
absolute bottom of the power structure, the slaves and their
descendants, and realized that they themselves were not
free.Musicians mentioned in the book are as follows:Henry David
ThoreauMark TwainMinstrel ShowsUncle Tom's CabinFisk Jubilee
SingersScott JoplinW.C. HandyBessie SmithMa RaineyCharlie
PattonLouis ArmstrongBuddy BoldenJelly Roll MortonSidney
BechetMamie SmithKing OliverBillie HolidayW.E.B. Du BoisJack
JohnsonRobert JohnsonOriginal Dixieland Jazz BandHoagy
CarmichaelBix BeiderbeckeMezz MezzrowAustin High GangPaul
WhitemanCarl Van VechtenZora Neale HurstonLangston HughesDuke
EllingtonCount BasieBenny GoodmanThomas DorseyJohn HammondJohn
LomaxAlan LomaxLead BellyJimmie RodgersWoody GuthrieMississippi
John HurtCharlie ParkerDizzy GillespieWillie  The Lion" SmithLouis
JordanMuddy WatersHowlin WolfWillie DixonJohn Lee HookerThelonious
MonkJohn ColtraneMiles DavisJack KerouacPete SeegerBill HaleyElvis
PresleyChuck BerryRay CharlesLavern BakerAhmet ErtegunJerry
WexlerBob DylanJoan BaezPaul ButterfieldMike Bloomfield
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