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Poster by<\/em> Mike Dubois<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture, and Memory<\/em>. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, November 16\u201318, 2007.<\/h5>\n

Director: Michael Grabscheid. Program Co-Director: Nicholas G. Meriwether.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the University of Massachusetts\u2013Amherst, this symposium brought together members of the Grateful Dead’s staff and family with scholars, students, and fans for the first academic conference on the Grateful Dead phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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Selected Papers and Presentations<\/h4>\n

Rebecca Adams, \u201cStrangers Stopping Strangers: The Deadhead Community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barry Barnes, \u201cThe Grateful Dead: An Improvisational Business Model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Bralove, \u201cLight the Song with Sense and Color.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gary Burnett, \u201cDeader Than Thou, or Living Gratefully: Deadhead Interactions Online.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Revell Carr, \u201c\u2018Did You Hear What I Just Heard?\u2019 Self-Reflection, Audience Reception, and Magical Realism in Grateful Dead Lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian Crumlish, \u201cDeadheads in Cyberspace: A Historical Survey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Natalie Dollar, \u201cExploring the Deadhead Speech Community: A Cultural Communication Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Dodd, \u201cThrough a Glass Darkly: \u2018Barbed Wire Whipping Party\u2019 As A Negative Lens of Illumination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Freeman, \u201cImprovisation as Social Interaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Gimbel, \u201cThe Other One and the Other: Moral Lessons from a Reluctant Teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

Herb Greene, \u201cBrief Encounters with the Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley Krippner, \u201cThe Grateful Dead\u2019s Entangled Minds: New Paradigms, Shamanism, and Telepathic Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leora Lawton, \u201cWhy are There so Many Jewish Deadheads\u2014and Why Should We Care?\u201d<\/p>\n

Chaone Mallory, \u201cOf All Possible Worlds: The Dead and the Construction of Collective Eco-Consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Malvinni, \u201cBlues, Jazz, and the Psychedelic Worldview: How the Grateful Dead Transformed Improvisatory Music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicholas G. Meriwether, \u201cThe Last Prank, the LA Acid Tests, and the Birth of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaugn O\u2019Donnell, \u201cAmerican Chaos: Charles Ives and the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn Rifkin, \u201cThe Brand Known as the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandy Sohcot, \u201cThe Rex Foundation and the Philanthropy of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Silberman, \u201cHomegrown Dharma.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Silberman, \u201cThe Dead, the Media, and the Shock of the New.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Silverman, \u201cFrom New Guinea to New Minglewood: Notes Towards An Aesthetic Theory of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley Spector, \u201c\u2018Statements Just Seem Vain At Last\u2019: The Grateful Dead and Nietzsche\u2019s Critique of Philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

James A. Tuedio, \u201c\u2018Words Half Spoken and Thoughts Unclear:\u2019 Synchronicity, Ambiguity, and Exposure to Excess in the Transvaluative Dynamic of Grateful Dead Music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Waksman, \u201cThe Aesthetics of Electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brent Wood, \u201cThe Role of Words in the Grateful Dead Ritual Concert Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roundtables<\/h4>\n

\u201cConceived of Great Spirit: The Grateful Dead Meet Rolling Thunder.\u201d Stanley Krippner, moderator. Sidian Morning Star, panelist.<\/p>\n

\u201cSearchin\u2019 for the Sound: Engineering the Dead.\u201d Dan Healy, moderator. Bob Bralove, panelist.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Some Say Men But I Say No:\u2019 Gender and the Counterculture.\u201d Laura Lovett, moderator. Rachel Gallop, Carolyn Adams Garcia, panelists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Storyteller Speaks: Remembrances From Thirty Years on Tour.\u201d Dennis McNally, moderator. Carolyn Adams Garcia, Bill Walton, panelists.<\/p>\n

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