Brackett Live Dead

The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2761-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the Grateful Dead

John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to “Betty Boards,” and Dick’s Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for over fifty years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brackett, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.