Deadhead Social Science: "You Ain't Gonna Learn what You Don't Want to Know"

Front Cover
Rebecca G. Adams, Robert Sardiello
Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 299 pages
Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead.
 

Contents

What Goes Around Comes Around Collaborative Research and Learning
15
Music
49
The Grammar of the Grateful Dead
51
Other People Play the Music Improvisation as Social Interaction
75
Spirituality
107
The Deadhead Community Popular Religion in Contemporary American Culture
109
We Were given This Dance Music and Meaning in the Early Unlimited Devotion Family
129
Outside the Show
155
Becoming a Deadhead
203
An Eriksonian Perspective on the Journey Through Deadhead Adulthood
215
SelfConcept and EgoExtension Among Grateful Dead Fans
227
Deadheads and Dichotomies Mediated and Negotiated Readings
241
Conclusion
265
Studying Deadhead Subculture
267
Author Index
281
Subject Index
284

Vending at Dead Shows The Bizarre Bazaar
157
Community Reaction to the Deadhead Subculture
183
Identity
201
About the Contributors
295
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

References to this book

Bibliographic information