Deadhead Social Science

'You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want to Know'

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead. Deadheads, as Grateful Dead fans are called, followed the band from venue to venue until the band announced their dissolution in December of 1995 and have continued to follow bands including various surviving members of the Grateful Dead since then. Deadhead Social Science addresses the questions: What is a Deadhead? How does a Deadhead identity evolve? Why would a person choose an identity that would be viewed negatively by a larger society? Why are Deadheads viewed negatively by the larger society? Is the Deadhead community a popular religion? How did a rock band develop a religious following? The book also examines the music, the role of vendors, and the reaction by "host" communities to the Grateful Dead and its following. One key theme in Deadhead Social Science is the interconnections among teaching, research, and personal interests written from a variety of social science disciplinary traditions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-05-30
Mått:150 x 220 x 22 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:AltaMira Press
ISBN:9780742502512

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Rebecca G. Adams, PhD, Professor of Sociology and gerontologist in the School of Health and Social Sciences at University North Carolina Greensboro, has published 5 books and more than 70 scholarly articles and chapters, including more than 15 on Deadheads. She has taught about Deadheads on tour (1989), on campus, (2000s), and online (2019); presented at the SWPACA Grateful Dead Caucus, at other professional meetings, and to student audiences; written popular press articles about Deadheads, published a fictional piece situated on Dead tour, conducted audience research for Grateful Dead Productions, and narrated Deadheads an American Subculture (1990). She attended her first Dead show in 1970. Robert Sardiello, MA, is adjunct professor of sociology at Nassau Community College and has published several scholarly pieces concerning Deadheads. He attended his first Dead show in 1977.

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This book is a must read for those with a passion for teaching, for those who are truly engaged in their research and, perhaps most importantly, for those who can conceive of research and teaching as one in the same enterprise.

Innehållsförteckning

chapter 1 Part I: Introductionchapter 2 "What Goes Around Comes Around": Collaborative Research and Learningchapter 3 Part II: Musicchapter 4 The Grammar of the Grateful Deadchapter 5 Other People Play the Music: Improvisation as Social Interactionchapter 6 Part III: Spiritualitychapter 7 The Deadhead Community: Popular Religion in Contemporary American Culturechapter 8 "We Were Given this Dance": Music and Meaning in the Early Unlimited Devotional Familychapter 9 Part IV: Outside the Showchapter 10 Vending at Dead Shows: The Bizarre Bazaarchapter 11 Community Reaction to Deadhead Subculturechapter 12 Part V: Identitychapter 13 Becoming a Deadheadchapter 14 An Eriksonian Perspective on the Journey Through Deadhead Adulthoodchapter 15 Self-Concept and Ego Extension Among Grateful Dead Fanschapter 16 Deadheads and Dichotomies: Mediated and Negotiated Readingschapter 17 Part VI: Conclusionchapter 18 Studying Deadhead Subculture