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Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
Ulf Olsson
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Description for Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
Hardback. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, this book provides a lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. It examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Editor(s): Meriwether, Nicholas. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; AVC; AVGP; AVH; HBLX; HPCF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520286641
SKU
V9780520286641
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About Ulf Olsson
Ulf Olsson is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University.
Reviews for Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
"...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."
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