Volume Three


DEAD LETTERS Vol. III

Contents

Introduction

The Education of a Deadhead: A Letter from a Novelist

Matthew Armstrong

What Are Deadheads? An Informal Survey

Alex Kolker

A Note On Kolker’s Methodology

Alan Lehman

The Taoist Perspective in “Weather Report Suite”

Melinda Belleville

Mapping the Deadhead Social Science Trip

Natalie Dollar

“Bound to Cover Just a Little More Ground”: A Heideggerian Reflection on the Grateful Dead

Stanley Spector

Community Through Excess: Bataille’s Festival of Rapture and the Deadhead Concert Experience

Jim Tuedio

“Words Half Spoken”: The Sociolinguistics of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon

Lisa Eaton

Shakedown Street: A Benjaminian Approach to the Grateful Dead

James Revell Carr

“A Very Rare Wave”: Bill Graham on the Dead, the Sixties, and the Business of Rock Music

David Gans

How Did the Song Go? Tracing the Roots of the Grateful Dead’s Cover Songs

Eric Levy

The Dead in the Academy: A Checklist

Nicholas Meriwether

Thoughts on ‘The Dead’

Twilight of the Dead: Red Rocks, 2003

Don McCallister

What’s Become of the Baby?” The Dead After Garcia

Daniel J. Dasaro

Caucus News

“With Thought Jewels Polished and Gleaming”: The Sixth Annual Grateful Dead Caucus

“Spinning That Curious Sense of Our Own”: The Seventh Annual Grateful Dead Caucus

“Shall We Go?” The Eighth Annual Grateful Dead Caucus

 Christian Crumlish

“Never Had Such A Good Time”: The Ninth Annual Grateful Dead Caucus

Reviews

A Band Beyond Description, The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack

Mike Dolgushkin

Dick's Picks, Vol. 36

Don McCallister

Searching For the Sound

Gary Burnett

Home Before Daylight

 Alan Lehman

Contributors

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