Kaler Get Shown the Light

Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2732-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Grateful Dead

Michael Kaler demonstrates that the Grateful Dead developed a radical new way of playing rock music as a means to unleashing the spiritual and transformative potential of their music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaler, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
An Autobiographical Introduction 1
1. The Grateful Dead: A Spiritually Motivated, Improvising Rock Band 5
2. Setting the Scene: Where They Came From 22
3. How the Grateful Dead Learned to Jam: Building a Framework for Improvisation 45
4. Improvisational Tactics, 1965–1974: Roads Taken, and Some That Were Not Taken 73
5. Writing About Improvisation: Approaches to Understanding Spontaneous Playing 125
6. Other Improvising Rock Bands: Similar Directions, Different Motivations 139
7. Music, Transcendent Spiritual Experience, and the Grateful Dead: How They Came Together 161
8. The Grateful Dead’s Spiritual Context: The Acid Tests and Afterwards 185
9. What They Did: How the Grateful Dead Joined Their Musical and Spiritual Imperatives 201
Appendix. Grateful Dead Personnel and Performances 237
Notes 241
Bibliography 265
Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Kaler is Associate Professor, teaching stream, at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy at the University of Toronto Mississauga and author of Flora Tells a Story: The Apocalypse of Paul and Its Contexts.