Description:Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group s music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group within discourses of the political, specifically the band s capacity to create a unique social environment.Analyzing the Grateful Dead s music as well as the forms of subjectivity and practices that the band generated, Olsson examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Ultimately, Listening for the Secret is about how the Grateful Dead Phenomenon was possible in the first place, what its social and aesthetic conditions of possibility were, and its results. This is the first book in a new series, Studies and Texts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Studies in the Grateful Dead). To get started finding Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Studies in the Grateful Dead), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Studies in the Grateful Dead)
Description: Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group s music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group within discourses of the political, specifically the band s capacity to create a unique social environment.Analyzing the Grateful Dead s music as well as the forms of subjectivity and practices that the band generated, Olsson examines the wider significance and impact of its politics of improvisation. Ultimately, Listening for the Secret is about how the Grateful Dead Phenomenon was possible in the first place, what its social and aesthetic conditions of possibility were, and its results. This is the first book in a new series, Studies and Texts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Studies in the Grateful Dead). To get started finding Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation (Studies in the Grateful Dead), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.