Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings

Foreword by Rebecca G. Adams Introduction by Robert G. Weiner Precisely How and Why I Didn't Kill Jerry: Ethnography, Surrealism, and The Millennium Shows by Philip E. Baruth A Pilot Study in Dream Telepathy with the Grateful Dead by Stanley Krippner Legally Dead: The Grateful Dead and American Legal Culture by David Fraser and Vaughan Black The Grateful Dead Onstage in World Music by Thomas Vennum, Jr. No, but I've Been to Shows: Accepting the Dead and Rejecting the Deadheads by David L. Pelovitz Why Are There So Many Jewish Deadheads? by Douglas M. Gertner Bakhtinian Carnival, Corporate Capital, and the Last Decade of the Dead by Brad Lucas Understanding Show as a Deadhead Speech Situation by Natalie Dollar Is There a Day of the Month Effect in Beat It On Down the Line? by Robert K. Toutkoushian The Grateful Dead Experience: A Factor Analytic Study of the Personalities of People Who Identify with the Grateful Dead by William McCown and Wendy L. Dulaney High Time and Ambiguous Harmonic Function by Walter Everett Space, Motion, and Other Musical Metaphors by Shaugn O'Donnell The Grateful Dead Legendstock: Based on Alan Trist's Water of Life -- A Tale of the Grateful Dead by Marjorie C. Luesebrink The Grateful Dead vs. the American Dream? by Jason Palm The Annotated Ramble on Rose: An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (a work in progress) by David Dodd Laid my proposition down/Laid it on the line: Gambling and the Storyteller in Robert Hunter's Lyrics by Anissa Craghead Grateful Dead: Manifestations from the Collective Unconscious by Mary Goodenough Clinging to the Edge of Magic: Shamanic Aspects of the Grateful Dead by Nancy Reist The Grateful Dead as Community by Rachel Wilgoren Deadhead Tales of the Supernatural: A Folkloristic Analysis by Revell Carr The Piping of Heaven: Reckless Musings on Philosophical Taoism and the Grateful Dead Phenomenon by Joseph P. Noonan III The Ripple Effect by Joseph Holt Afterword The Curriculum of Joy by Steve Silberman