Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: More than any other of the San Francisco bands from the mid 1960’s, the Grateful Dead have been identified as the quintessential psychedelic rock band. In this paper, I discuss how their mode of improvising, what has been called jamming, while incorporating the traditional jazz modes of improvisation is actually a transformation in a style of playing music. Playing in this new style eventually led the band to compose a new kind of music—psychedelic rock. Underlying the transformation in the way they played and in the songs they composed is a shift in consciousness with a corresponding shift in ontology that is one of the markers of the 1960’s counterculture.
Source: Volume !
DOI: 10.4000/volume.3290
Author: Stanley J. Spector
Institutions: University of Colorado System, Modesto Junior College
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1934849285