Product Description: On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan...read more

Product Description: The Church needs the arts, as they are a way to access the soul. As Augustine says, one who sings, prays twice. Recent popes have given the impression that the Church is again interested in the way the arts draw us into ourselves, where we are able to contact the mystery that is God...read more

An authorized portrait of the Grateful Dead documents the band's early days on the 1960s roots and folk scene, complicated relationships between band members, intricate stage setup, and most noteworthy tours and performances.

Chronicles the rock band the Grateful Dead, offering an illustrated history, including photographs, biographies, memorabilia, personal essays, listings of albums and songs, and a detailed chronology of tours.

The Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Their history is the history of the modern American Revolution in the years of rage and rebellion, which were to change the country forever. This title presents the band's story.

Examines every aspect of Kerouac's life--his childhood, his restlessness, his obsessive relationships and trav-els, and his final years of failure

Product Description: Fearsome Edifice looks at the decoration of the interiors of church buildings. We discover that different self-identities have informed the house of God wherein the people of God celebrate God's re-entry into human time and space; liturgically, ritually, politically, and personally God occupies our spatial/temporal continuum as His own...read more

Product Description: Ahora, cuando ya ha pasado casi un cuarto de siglo desde la muerte de Jack Kerouac, parece ser irónicamente el mejor momento en lo que respecta a la revalorización de su obra y la del grupo de escritores que compartió su vida con él, la llamada beat generation...read more

Product Description: Book by McNally, Dennis

Examines every aspect of Kerouac's life--his childhood, his restlessness, his obsessive relationships and travels, and his final years of failure