Foreword

Rebecca G. Adams

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Robert G. Weiner

Precisely How and Why I Didn't Kill Jerry: Ethnography, Surrealism, and The Millennium Shows

Philip E. Baruth

A Pilot Study in Dream Telepathy with the Grateful Dead

Stanley Krippner

Legally Dead: The Grateful Dead and American Legal Culture

David Fraser

Vaughan Black

The Grateful Dead Onstage in "World Music"

Thomas Vennum, Jr.

"No, but I've Been to Shows": Accepting the Dead and Rejecting the Deadheads

David L. Pelovitz

Why Are There So Many Jewish Deadheads?

Douglas M. Gertner

Bakhtinian Carnival, Corporate Capital, and the Last Decade of the Dead

Brad E. Lucas

Understanding "Show" as a Deadhead Speech Situation

Natalie Dollar

Is There a Day of the Month Effect in "Beat It On Down the Line"?

Robert K. Toutkoushian

The Grateful Dead Experience: A Factor Analytic Study of the Personalities of People Who Identify with the Grateful Dead

William McCown

Wendy Dulaney

"High Time" and Ambiguous Harmonic Function

Walter Everett

Space, Motion, and Other Musical Metaphors

Shaugn O'Donnell

The Grateful Dead Legendstock: Based on Alan Trist's Water of Life-A Tale of the Grateful Dead

Marjorie C. Luesebrink

The Grateful Dead vs. the American Dream?

Jason Palm

The Annotated "Ramble on Rose": An Installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (a work in progress)

David Dodd

"Laid My Proposition Down / Laid It on the Line": Gambling and the Storyteller in Robert Hunter's Lyrics

Anissa Craghead

Grateful Dead: Manifestations from the Collective Unconscious

Mary Goodenough

Clinging to the Edge of Magic: Shamanic Aspects of the Grateful Dead

Nancy Reist

The Grateful Dead as Community

Rachel Wilgoren

Deadhead Tales of the Supernatural: A Folkloristic Analysis

Revell Carr

The Piping of Heaven: Reckless Musings on Philosophical Taoism and the Grateful Dead Phenomenon

Joseph P. Noonan III

The Ripple Effect

Joseph Holt

Afterword: The Curriculum of Joy

Steve Silberman

Index

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