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Ensemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Development of Rock-based Improvisational Practice and its Religious Implications

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dc.contributor.advisorBowman, Robert M. J.
dc.creatorKaler, Michael John
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-17T14:07:15Z
dc.date.available2014-07-17T14:07:15Z
dc.date.copyright2014-02-24
dc.date.issued2014-07-09
dc.date.updated2014-07-09T16:56:05Z
dc.degree.disciplineMusic
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the Grateful Dead’s creation of a distinctively rock-oriented approach to open improvisation in the mid to late 1960s. In the first section of the dissertation, I draw on live recordings, presented diachronically, to examine how the band developed this approach to improvisation. In the second section, I address the issue of why they developed this approach; in so doing, I move from strictly musical to religious concerns in order to demonstrate the fundamentally spiritual impetus that drove the band to devise and devotedly practice such a radical approach to rock playing, in the process linking their religious motivations with similarly transcendence-focused aspirations of other radical improvisers of the 1960s.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27664
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsJerry Garciaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGrateful Deaden_US
dc.subject.keywordsMusicen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPsychedeliaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLSDen_US
dc.subject.keywordsReligionen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNew religious movementsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsHippieen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSan Franciscoen_US
dc.subject.keywordsImprovisationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAcid rocken_US
dc.subject.keywordsReligious experienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsRocken_US
dc.subject.keywordsPhil Leshen_US
dc.titleEnsemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Development of Rock-based Improvisational Practice and its Religious Implicationsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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