The Grateful Dead in Concert
Essays on Live Improvisation
Edited by Jim Tuedio and Stan Spector
Foreword by Stanley Krippner
ISBN 978-0-7864-4357-4
32 photos, notes, bibliographies, index
365pp. softcover 2010
The Grateful Dead in Concert: Essays on Live Improvisation offers a spirited analysis of the unique improvisational character of Grateful Dead music and its impact on appreciative fans. The 20 essays capture distinct facets of the Grateful Dead phenomenon from a broad range of scholarly angles. The band’s trademark synergizing focus is discussed as a function of complex musical improvisation interlaced with the band members’ collective assimilation of an impressive range of marginal musical forms and lyrical traditions. These facets are shown to produce a vibrant Deadhead experience, resulting in community influences still morphing in new directions 45 years after the band’s initial impact.
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This is a really great book by any objective standard. Oh, I just noticed I have an essay in it titled "Non-Systematic Thoughts on Improvisation." Who knew? ...especially that I might know something about "marginal musical forms." :)
C
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