John Brackett

Live Dead

The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

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Produktbeschreibung

John Brackett examines how live recordingsâ from the groupâ s official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to â Betty Boards,â and Dickâ s Picks to From the Vaultâ have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for over fifty years.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Grateful Dead
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025481
• ISBN-10: 1478025484
• Artikelnr.: 67747500

Autorenporträt

John Brackett is an independent scholar and author of John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Becoming Live  1
1. “To Capture That Special Feeling”: Recorded (and Recording) Liveness
(The Warner Bros. Years, 1966–1973)  31
2.  “The Next Best Thing to Being There”: Tapes, Taping, and an Alternative
Aesthetic of Recorded Liveness  61
3. A Time of Reckoning: New Approaches to Producing and Marketing Liveness
(The 1980s, Part 1)  85
4. “That Quintessential Spirit of the Band”: “Touch of Grey,” the “Betty
Boards,” and the Rebirth of the Dead (The 1980s, Part 2)  105
5. “The Live Feel of a Tape”: From the Vault, Dick’s Picks, and the
Language(s) of Liveness  125
6. Post-Dead: “Obstinately Physical,” “Vaporous Cargo,” and the Material
Remains of Liveness  152
Conclusion: Memento Mori  169
Notes  177
Bibliography  201
Index  211