Casey Rae – författare

What can the Grateful Dead teach us about impermanence, interconnection, and the quest for meaning?Dead Dharma: The Grateful Dead and the American Quest for Transcendence explores how the Grateful Dead and their cultural orbit became unlikely guides for America's spiritual journey. Blending spiritual sociology, musicology, and cultural history, Casey Rae situates the Dead within a lineage of seekers--from Transcendentalists and Beats to psychedelic pioneers and spiritual radicals shaped by Eastern philosophies and Indigenous wisdom.The book reveals how the band functioned as a living mandala: their concerts as psychedelic ritual spaces, their vast archive as sacred artifacts, and their ethos as a fusion of improvisation and awakening. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and lived experience, Dead Dharma illuminates how the Dead's improvisational soundtracks echo Buddhist concepts of impermanence, interdependence, and open awareness.Tracing the band'a evolution from the Beat-fueled San Francisco Renaissance to their enduring presence in contemporary culture (where for some they verge on religion,) Rae connects their musical and social experiment to the spiritual and philosophical currents of their era and beyond. In doing so, he shows how the Dead embodied both the promise and paradox of American transcendence. Blending cultural, musical, literary, and spiritual inquiry with polyphonic biography, Dead Dharma offers a vivid exploration of how the Dead's ecstatic experiment in sound and community resonates with timeless questions of social transformation, individual liberation, and what it means to be human in a world on fire.

'If you simply follow Burroughs through the rock 'n' roll years you'll see him achieve a flickering ubiquity - lurking here, eavesdropping there, photobombing the whole parade. It becomes a kind of alternative history' NEW YORK TIMESReissued with a new Foreword as part of White Rabbit's prestigious Deep Cuts series, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll tells the story of a man Patti Smith described as 'up there with the pope' through the prism of his impact on pop music.William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented - until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that followed in his wake.'Casey Rae's book is a labour of love that offers a map to understanding Burroughs' complex relationship to music and other art forms' CHRIS STEIN, co-founder of BLONDIE

William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs.A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on the grounds of obscenity, but its nonlinear structure was just as daring as its content. Casey Rae brings to life Burroughs's parallel rise to fame among daring musicians of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, when it became a rite of passage to hang out with the author or to experiment with his cut-up techniques for producing revolutionary lyrics (as the Beatles and Radiohead did). Whether they tell of him exploring the occult with David Bowie, providing Lou Reed with gritty depictions of street life, or counseling Patti Smith about coping with fame, the stories of Burroughs's backstage impact will transform the way you see America's cultural revolution-and the way you hear its music.

William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs.A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on the grounds of obscenity, but its nonlinear structure was just as daring as its content. Casey Rae brings to life Burroughs's parallel rise to fame among daring musicians of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, when it became a rite of passage to hang out with the author or to experiment with his cut-up techniques for producing revolutionary lyrics (as the Beatles and Radiohead did). Whether they tell of him exploring the occult with David Bowie, providing Lou Reed with gritty depictions of street life, or counseling Patti Smith about coping with fame, the stories of Burroughs's backstage impact will transform the way you see America's cultural revolution-and the way you hear its music.

Today’s music marketplace is more complex than any previous era. It’s easy to feel paralyzed by the plethora of digital services and business models, to say nothing of corresponding revenue streams—all of which are established by copyright. In simple and easy-to-read language, Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age takes readers step-by-step through the world of music copyright, imparting tools to navigate this intricate system. Casey Rae demystifies the laws, business practices, and trends that enable—and sometimes frustrate—a rapidly evolving industry and empowers music creators, managers, and entrepreneurs to make informed decisions.Learn about the exclusive rights attached to expressive works and how they correspond to different roles and royalties within the music marketplace. The book provides:information on protecting and registering copyrights an explanation of recent developments in the courts and Congress pertaining to music copyright lawvaluable strategies for music licensinginformation on how to sign up for royalty collection societies and an array of other useful organizations and services

Today’s music marketplace is more complex than any previous era. It’s easy to feel paralyzed by the plethora of digital services and business models, to say nothing of corresponding revenue streams—all of which are established by copyright. In simple and easy-to-read language, Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age takes readers step-by-step through the world of music copyright, imparting tools to navigate this intricate system. Casey Rae demystifies the laws, business practices, and trends that enable—and sometimes frustrate—a rapidly evolving industry and empowers music creators, managers, and entrepreneurs to make informed decisions.Learn about the exclusive rights attached to expressive works and how they correspond to different roles and royalties within the music marketplace. The book provides:information on protecting and registering copyrights an explanation of recent developments in the courts and Congress pertaining to music copyright lawvaluable strategies for music licensinginformation on how to sign up for royalty collection societies and an array of other useful organizations and services