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Why the Grateful Dead Matter

Paperback • 2016 • English

Why the Grateful Dead Matter

By Michael Benson

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About the book

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American culture. He defends the proposition that the Grateful Dead are, in fact, a musical movement as transformative as anyism in the artistic history of this century and the last. And a lot more fun than most. From the street festivals of Haight-Ashbury to the cross-country acid tests with the Merry Pranks...Show more

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9781611688511

Publisher

University Press of New England

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Why the Grateful Dead Matter

Format

Paperback

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