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Book Deadhead Forever

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott Meyer
  • Publisher : Running Press
  • Release : 2001-08-13
  • ISBN : 9780762407972
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Deadhead Forever written by Scott Meyer and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered wedged beneath the back seat of a 1964 Volkswagen van, this brilliant scrapbook filled with real-life memorabilia celebrates the glory days of the Grateful Dead and the remarkable subculture that sprang up around the legendary band's many appearances around the country. It's a picaresque insider's recollection of that colorful, carefree life, complete with the treasured memorabilia of a fan who attended hundreds of concerts. Deadhead Forever includes three decades' worth of Dead lore and stories, plus more than 100 pictures, concert tickets, and other evocative souvenirs.

Book Deadhead Forever

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  • Author : Scott Meyer
  • Publisher : Running Press
  • Release : 2006-10-02
  • ISBN : 9780762428366
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Deadhead Forever written by Scott Meyer and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapbook of the Grateful Dead. The narrative and characters are fictional, but the set lists, dates and memorabilia are researched and real.

Book Deadhead Social Science

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  • Author : Rebecca G. Adams
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780742502512
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Deadhead Social Science written by Rebecca G. Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead. Deadheads, as Grateful Dead fans are called, followed the band from venue to venue until the band announced their dissolution in December of 1995 and have continued to follow bands including various surviving members of the Grateful Dead since then. Deadhead Social Science addresses the questions: What is a Deadhead? How does a Deadhead identity evolve? Why would a person choose an identity that would be viewed negatively by a larger society? Why are Deadheads viewed negatively by the larger society? Is the Deadhead community a popular religion? How did a rock band develop a religious following? The book also examines the music, the role of vendors, and the reaction by "host" communities to the Grateful Dead and its following. One key theme in Deadhead Social Science is the interconnections among teaching, research, and personal interests written from a variety of social science disciplinary traditions.

Book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 15065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.

Book Dead Head

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allen Wyler
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-02-06
  • ISBN : 9780765355966
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Dead Head written by Allen Wyler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain Surgery or Murder? When brain surgeon Russell Lawton is abducted at gunpoint by terrorists, he's sure there's a mistake: how could he be useful to them? To his horror, he learns they have kidnapped his only child, eight-year old Angela. Unless Russell does what they want, they will bury her alive. To buy time Russell agrees, and is immediately confronted with a seemingly impossible surgical problem. He must develop an innovative computer that can manipulate a robot by using brain activity. And fast, or his daughter dies. Why? When Russell finds out why the terrorists need the computer, and how they plan to use it on a human being, he can't believe they're serious. But the consequences for not taking them seriously are his daughter's life, and the lives of millions of innocent people.

Book Forever Young

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  • Author : Marcel Danesi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802086204
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Forever Young written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life. Written for the general reader and based on five year's worth of interviews with over 200 adolescents and their parents, Danesi begins by asserting that one of the early causes of this crystallization of adolescence as an age category can be traced back to theories of psychology at the turn of the twentieth century. Since then, the psychological view of adolescence as a stressful period of adjustment has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This, in tandem with the devaluation of the family by the media and society at large, has led to a maturity gap - a fissure in family dynamics that is eagerly and ably exploited by the mass media. Unlike many academic digressions into the malaise of modern culture, Forever Young provides concrete answers on how the 'forever young syndrome' can be addressed. One solution is to dispel the myth that experts and professionals are the people best equipped to give advice on raising children. The second is to recognize the value of family, in all its different combinations, as the primary institution of child-rearing. The third is to challenge the pervasive notion that teen culture is a sophisticated endeavour - that, for example, pop music can claim to have produced some of the best musical art in the world, surpassing Mozart or Bach. By laying bare the misguided tenets that have brought about, and continue to promote, a 'forever young' mentality, Marcel Danesi demonstrates that the 'teen-aging' of culture has come about because it is, simply put, good for business. Teen tastes have achieved cultural supremacy because the western economic system requires a conformist and easily manipulated market, and has thus joined forces with the media-entertainment oligarchy to promote a deterministic 'forever young' market.

Book Dead Head

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  • Author : Howard Brenton
  • Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book Dead Head written by Howard Brenton and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a freezing Dickensian London petty-crook Eddie Cass is paid handsomely to transport a hat-box from a council flat to a Regent's Park mansion. Unable to make delivery he makes the mistake of opening the box and is plunged into a murder scandal reaching right to the highest echelons. Worse, he is pursued by a secret agent wearing scent who lets him loose, as a sporting gesture, with a thousand pounds and a bottle of Glenmorangie before hunting him down."--Back cover.

Book A Journal of the Journey

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  • Author : John A. Black
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2022-04-06
  • ISBN : 163903854X
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book A Journal of the Journey written by John A. Black and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of you, from every married couple, may face a life-changing diagnosis and perhaps end-of-life decisions for your mate. If so, your journey is just beginning. Certainly, one person from every married couple will grieve and mourn the loss of their mate. If you are the surviving spouse, you are on a journey of grief. That one person from every married couple who survives and is left alone is now a widow or widower. Your journey will become unbelievably emotional, confusing, and lonesome. As that widow or widower grieves and mourns the loss of their mate, the decision must be made to move on with life or not. The choice is yours. Do you let Jesus walk you through this miserable valley, or do you choose to stay and live in this miserable valley alone? If you are the new widow or widower starting this miserable journey of grief, my heart hurts for you. If you are the child or other loved one of that one individual from every marriage who has become the surviving widow or widower, my heart hurts for you. As you follow the journey of this widower, you will get a firsthand account of the miserable journey your loved one is entering. I desire that the journaling of my experience, as the surviving spouse, will prepare you for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual setbacks you and your loved ones will face.

Book The Grateful Dead in Concert

Download or read book The Grateful Dead in Concert written by Jim Tuedio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a spirited analysis of the unique improvisational character of Grateful Dead music and its impact on appreciative fans. The 20 essays capture distinct facets of the Grateful Dead phenomenon from a broad range of scholarly angles. The band's trademark synergizing focus is discussed as a function of complex musical improvisation interlaced with the band members' collective assimilation of an impressive range of marginal musical forms and lyrical traditions. These facets are shown to produce a vibrant Deadhead experience, resulting in community influences still morphing in new directions 45 years after the band's initial impact.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1420 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Book of the Dead

Download or read book The American Book of the Dead written by Oliver Trager and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 750 alphabetically-arranged entries that provide information about the rock group Grateful Dead, featuring profiles of band members and associated musicians, filmmakers, photographers, composers, and others, and descriptions of the band's albums and solo releases.

Book Popular Music Fandom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Duffett
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-07
  • ISBN : 1134467699
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Popular Music Fandom written by Mark Duffett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research, raising questions about how popular music fandom can be understood as a cultural phenomenon and how much it has changed in light of recent developments. Exploring the topic in this way broaches questions on how to define, theorize, and empirically research popular music fan culture, and how music fandom relates to other roles, practices, and forms of social identity. Fandom itself has been brought center stage by the rise of the internet and an industrial structure aiming to incorporate, systematize, and legitimate dimensions of it as an emotionally-engaged form of consumerism. Once perceived as the pariah practice of an overly attached audience, media fandom has become a standardized industrial subject-position called upon to sell box sets, concert tickets, new television series, and special editions. Meanwhile, recent scholarship has escaped the legacy of interpretations that framed fans as passive, pathological, or defiantly empowered, taking its object seriously as a complex formation of identities, roles, and practices. While popular music studies has examined some forms of identity and audience practice, such as the way that people use music in daily life and listener participation in subcultures, scenes and, tribes, this volume is the first to examine music fans as a specific object of study.

Book Notes

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  • Author : Music Library Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Notes written by Music Library Association and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dead to the Core

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Wybenga
  • Publisher : Delta
  • Release : 2011-08-17
  • ISBN : 0307768406
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Dead to the Core written by Eric Wybenga and published by Delta. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grateful Dead have left us a musical bounty of thirty years and thousands of shows. Now Dead to the Core: An Almanack of the Grateful Dead takes Deadheads through the seasons and years of the Dead's dazzling array of music, with lavish treatment of those "bumper crop" eras from which their most succulent songs and shows and shows can be harvested. It is part reference, part critical companion to the best the Dead have to offer, a work liberally stocked with trivia, lore, humor, and arcana. No Head "farmer" wanting to reap the dankest of the Dead kind will want to be without this essential resource. Includes... Show-a-day seasonal calendars Detailed show reviews from key years Musical and lyrical analyses of the Dead's core tunes Annotated lists of hot versions of key tunes Capsule reviews of shows from throughout the Dead's career Personal anecdotes and observations from Deadheads A guide to the best Dead-related sites on the Internet In-depth essays on the Dead's prime eras ...And much, much more, including the Dead-Dylan connection, the Dead and Garcia's place in the musical universe, the Deadhead pantheon, tour lore...

Book Musical Digest

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Musical Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lies   Ugliness

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  • Author : Brian Hodge
  • Publisher : Crossroad Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Lies Ugliness written by Brian Hodge and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a review of his first collection, The Convulsion Factory, esteemed critic Stanley Wiater stated, “This writer knows where the sad people, the bad people, and the mad people live.” Indeed. For his expansive command of characters as well as the situations, from the visionary to the grittily mundane, in which he finds them, and for his lyrically crafted prose and skewed perspectives (not to mention his penchant for run-on sentences), Hodge has racked up an eclectic list of comparisons: from Elmore Leonard to Clive Barker, from Honoré Daumier to David Cronenberg, from Carl Jung to Marilyn Monroe*. Now comes his most far-reaching collection yet, 150,000 words chronicling the people, places, and things that his readers have come to expect, but never predict: The dancer who becomes the latest repository for the fervent sexuality that fueled the world’s most ancient cities. The serial killer whose grasp of media symbiosis puts him light-years ahead of the law. The modern-day castrato learning undreamt-of lessons in love, death, and divine madness. The Civil War veteran living a grotesque twist on the Old West myth of the outlaw who never takes off his gun belt. William Faulkner once noted that writers are congenital liars … that if they weren’t liars, they would never have become writers in the first place. In that spirit, Brian Hodge has been enthusiastically lying ever since his earliest mastery of the alphabet, guided by only one stipulation: Never letting a trivial thing like the facts get in the way of the ugly truth. * Sadly, the Monroe comparison is a total fabrication. Stories included in this collection: “Madame Babylon” “The 121st Day of Sodom” “Empathy” “Cancer Causes Rats” “Some Other Me” “Nesting Instincts” “Before the Last Snowflake Falls” “An Autumnal Equinox Folly” “Confession” “Cenotaph” “Far Flew the Boast of Him” “Now Day Was Fled As the Worm Had Wished” “Pages Stuck By a Bowie Knife to a Cheyenne Gallows” “Driving the Last Spike” “Little Holocausts” “Dead Giveaway” “Past Tense” “Our Lady of Sloth and Scarlet Ivy” “The Last Testament” “The Alchemy of the Throat” “Come Unto Me, All Ye Heavy Laden” “Endnotes: From the Gutters of Civilization to Your Discerning Eye”