Sweet Chaos
Autor Carol Brightman, Brightmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1999
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0671011170
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:99000
Editura: Gallery Books
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National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman returns to the band's roots -- to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, the acid tests and the heady days of Haight-Ashbury, the free concerts in Golden Gate Park and the formative shows at New York's Fillmore East -- to uncover the secrets of the band's longevity. Drawing on exclusive interviews with band members, staff and crew, Deadheads, other musicians, journalists -- and her own experience as a 60s activist -- Brightman shows us how, amid the turbulent Free Speech Movement and antiwar rallies, the Grateful Dead's abandonment to music, drugs, and dance offered the faithful a shelter in the storm. Her riveting, in-depth portrait of Jerry Garcia, the "nonleader leader" who held to a vision of the Grateful Dead's destiny even as he recoiled from the juggernaut it became, shows us how it was that a Dead concert became something halfway between a revival meeting and a family reunion.
An absorbing and exhilarating exploration, SWEET CHAOS offers, at last, a complete understanding of the Dead phenomenon and its place in American culture.
Descriere
Cuprins
Foreword to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
Part I Roots
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Chapter 2 Enter Cosmic Forces
Chapter 3 Flashes of Recognition
Chapter 4 How the Balloon Was Launched
Part II Takeoff
Chapter 5 Courting the Strange
Chapter 6 Summertime Done Come and Gone
Chapter 7 Son et Lumière
Part III Bums, Radicals, and Other Criminal Elements
Chapter 8 Their Subculture and Mine: I
Chapter 9 Their Subculture and Mine: II
Chapter 10 Their Subculture and Mine: III
Chapter 11 Their Subculture and Mine: IV
Part IV Reaping the Whirlwind
Chapter 12 The House That Jerry Built
Chapter 13 Heads and Tales
Chapter 14 Junkie Dreams, Acid Rain, and the Resurrection of the Dead
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index