... This chapter provides an overview of the band and its recordings and personnel up until 1974, and introduces the main themes of the book: the Grateful Dead’s improvisational practice, its relationship to the wider rock context, its relationship to their spiritual experiences. music...

... This chapter analyzes the Grateful Dead’s development of an authentically rock approach to improvisation. Through analysis of a number of recordings from their early years, it establishes a Framework or paradigm that helped structure their jamming. improvisation rock music jamming ...

..., as potentially a means of inducing transcendent experience. It further argues that this motivation behind the band’s music can be understood as religious—not merely “spiritual”—in nature. religious experience Grateful Dead music transcendence spirituality ...

... Having established the Grateful Dead’s practice and the spiritual or religious motivations for this practice, this chapter discusses their understanding of the meaning of their work, drawing on testimonies from drummer Mickey Hart, guitarist Jerry Garcia, and (in particular) bassist Phil Lesh...

... This chapter discusses the Grateful Dead’s spiritual context, first discussing the San Francisco hippie scene, and then focusing on the Acid Test (LSD parties hosted by author Ken Kesey, at which the Grateful Dead played), presenting these as the foundational events for the band’s sense...

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... This chapter brings the practical analyses of the Grateful Dead’s improvisational practice into dialogue with research into musical improvisation, discussing both specifically Grateful Dead related research by, for example, David Malvinni and Graeme Boone, and broader musicological research...

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... This chapter builds on the previous chapter by constructing a typology of the full variety of improvisational approaches followed by the Grateful Dead, as well as tracing the development of their practice over the late 1960s and early 1970s. improvisation rock music Grateful Dead...