Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation: 1 (Studies in the Grateful Dead) - Hardcover

Olsson, Ulf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520286642 ISBN 13: 9780520286641

Verlag: University of California Press, 2017

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"...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." * All About Jazz *

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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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0520286642
• ISBN 13: 9780520286641
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Meriwether Nicholas