Ensemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Development of Rock-based Improvisational Practice and its Religious Implications
dc.contributor.advisor | Bowman, Robert M. J. | |
dc.creator | Kaler, Michael John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-17T14:07:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-17T14:07:15Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2014-02-24 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-07-09 | |
dc.date.updated | 2014-07-09T16:56:05Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Music | |
dc.degree.level | Doctoral | |
dc.degree.name | PhD - Doctor of Philosophy | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/27664 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Music | en_US |
dc.subject | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Jerry Garcia | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Grateful Dead | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Music | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Psychedelia | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | LSD | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Religion | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | New religious movements | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Hippie | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | San Francisco | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Improvisation | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Acid rock | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Religious experience | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Rock | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Phil Lesh | en_US |
dc.title | Ensemble Stuff: The Grateful Dead's Development of Rock-based Improvisational Practice and its Religious Implications | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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