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So Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead.<\/em> San Jose State University, November 5\u20138, 2014.<\/h4>\n

Co-Directors: Nicholas G. Meriwether, Michael Parrish.<\/p>\n

Hosted by San Jose State University, this conference brought together members of the Grateful Dead, their staff, and their extended family with scholars, students, and fans for the second and largest academic meeting on the Grateful Dead phenomenon to date.<\/p>\n

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Papers and Presentations<\/h4>\n

Alexander, Kay. \u201cLet Us Now Reconsider Pigpen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backstrom, Melvin. \u201c\u2018Circle Songs and Sands of Time\u2019: Pastoral Complexity in the Music of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baldovinos, Jaime. \u201cCreative Destruction, \u2018China Cat Sunflower,\u2019 \u2018Dark Star,\u2019 Silicon Valley, and the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balter-Reitz, Susan. \u201c\u2018Shall We Go\u2019? Visiting the Enshrined Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barnes, Barry. \u201cSteve Jobs and Jerry Garcia: Two Iconic Aesthetic Leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bellone, Dominic. \u201c\u2018A Band Beyond Description\u2019: Metacantrics, Bohemian Nationalism, and Conjuring the Infinite Divine in \u2018The Music Never Stopped.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Berg, Jeremy. \u201cSilver Haystacks and Golden Needles: The Folksonomies That Brought Order to Grateful Dead Concert Recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blakesberg, Jay. \u201cChasing the Light: The Grateful Dead Photography of Jay Blakesberg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boone, Graeme. \u201cDark Star: Biography of a Song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyer, Frank V. \u201cJan Sawka\u2019s Dead Set as Exemplary Collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne, David. \u201cRe-Estimating Prophets and Writing the Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burnett, Gary. \u201c\u2018A Place of First Permission\u2019: Some Thoughts on the San Francisco Poetry Scene and the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlson, Scott. \u201c\u2018Take it, You Can Have It\u2019: Grateful Dead Taping and the Idea of Open Access.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carroll, Beth. \u201cFeminist Rhetorical Perspectives on Women and the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cline, Elizabeth, and Mark Rodriguez. \u201cFine Art and the Dead: \u2018If the Head Fits Wear It.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Cohen, Elizabeth. \u201cMargins and Frontiers: The Grateful Dead, Technology, and Silicon Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daley, Mike. \u201cListening to \u2018Space\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deetz, Scott, and Bob Trudeau. \u201cMeasuring the Immeasurable: Studying the Meaning of \u2018Just Exactly Perfect\u2019 for Deadheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolgushkin, Mike. \u201cGrateful Statistics: DeadBase <\/em>and Documenting the Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dollar, Natalie. \u201c\u2018Steal Your Face\u2019: The Paradox of Symbol Co-optation in One Communitarian Movement and Museum Exhibitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eliasoph, Philip. \u201cArt History and the Grateful Dead: Highbrow\/Middlebrow\/Lowbrow Zeitgeist Contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Felix, Brian. \u201cThe Development of \u2018Playing in the Band\u2019 as an Improvisational Vehicle, 1971\u20131972.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gans, David. \u201cSurveying the Dead: A Guided Listening Session.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gertner, Doug. \u201cWho Were the Grateful Dead, and Why Were They Always Following Jews Around?\u201d<\/p>\n

Goodenough, Mary. \u201c\u2018Take a Step Back\u2019: Swedenborg, Steiner, Jung, Campbell and the Grateful Dead Phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunderman, Hannah. \u201c\u2018The Music Never Stopped\u2019: Naming Businesses as a Method for Memorializing the Legacy of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hausmann, John. \u201cParodies, Popular Memory, and the Deadhead Community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intihar, Pyra. \u201cDead Roots and Regional Branches: the Grateful Dead in St. Louis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jarnow, Jesse. \u201cThe Hip Economy: LSD Manufacture, Concert Taping, and the Birth of the Deadhead Network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnston, Lucas. \u201cCities of Dreams: Musical, Spiritual, and Communal Improvisation in the Jam Band Scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kramer, Michael. \u201c\u2018Here Beside the Rising Tide\u2019: The Dead, the Counterculture, and American Democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kreutzmann, Bill, with\u00a0Benjy Eisen. \u201cDrumming With the Dead: Reminiscing, Writing, and Rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krippner, Stanley. \u201cTruckin\u2019 with the Grateful Dead: From Acid Rock to Dream Telepathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laurel, Heather. \u201cDisruptive Gestures and Divergent Paths in Grateful Dead Improvisations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lavezzoli, Pete. \u201cDick Latvala and the Birth of Dick\u2019s Picks<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawton, Leora. \u201cEyes of the World: A Jewish Viewpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mallory, Chaone. \u201c\u2018Make Yourself Easy’: Interrogating Gender Through Narrative and Memoir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malvinni, David. \u201cOn the Use of the bVII (Mixolydian) Chord in the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus, Steve. \u201cThe Beginning of A Miracle: From Dead Ducats to Grateful Dead Ticket Sales.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattson, Mark E. \u201cErrors and Expressive Variations in Grateful Dead Performances: A Review.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCallister, James D. \u201cFellow Traveler<\/em>: A Deadhead\u2019s Literary Journey of Redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCrary, Quincy. \u201cMagic and Folklore in Grateful Dead Spirituality.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGee, Rosie. \u201cPhotographing the Dead: A Documentary Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

McNally, Dennis. \u201cWhere the Road Began: The Roots of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meriwether, Nicholas G. \u201cSo Many Roads: The World in the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millman, Susana. \u201cAlive with the Dead: A Fly on the Wall with a Camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minkin, Bob. \u201cLive Dead: The Photography of Bob Minkin.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell, Shaugn. \u201cFormal Design in a \u2018Playing In the Band\u2019 Palindrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olsson, Ulf. \u201c\u2018Why Don\u2019t You Arrest Me?\u2019 The Normalization of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearlman, Sandy. \u201cThe Grateful Dead\u2019s Grayfolded<\/em>, Vinyl and Virtual: John Oswald Unwinds the Toxic Consequences of Digital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perlstein, Ed. \u201cPhotographing the Dead: Don\u2019t Annoy the Roadies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Potter, Pitman B. \u201cThe Gospel and the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quigley, Ellen. \u201cHe Had Rings On His Fingers, Bells on His Shoes: Grateful Dead Culture As Liminal Space for the Exploration of Gender Boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray, Timothy. \u201cFire on the Mountain: The Grateful Dead, Music Festivals, and the Rhetoric of the Communal Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richardson, Peter. \u201cJerry Garcia\u2019s Annus Mirabilis<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawka, Hanna. \u201cCountercultural Crossroads: Jan Sawka\u2019s Set Design for the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoenfeld, Robert. \u201cWhy Are There So Many Religious Jewish Deadheads in Israel?\u201d<\/p>\n

Silverman, Eric K. \u201cCultural Dialogics and the Grateful Dead: Or, An Anthropology of \u2018Moral\u2019 Beauty and \u2018Grotesque\u2019 Imagery in Lyric, Visual, and Sonic Iconography.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soni, Varun. \u201cMedia, Music, Mysticism: The Pop-Propheticism of the Grateful Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sonnenberg, David. \u201cThe Other One: Logical and Psychological Context, Collectivism, and Employee Engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spector, Stanley J. \u201c\u2018But They Keep on Dancin\u2019:\u201d Collective Improvisation and Life Affirmation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley, Rhoney. \u201cThe Writing of Owsley and Me: My LSD Family<\/em>: The Lessons of Collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weiner, Robert G. \u201cThe Grateful Dead and Comics: The Grateful Dead\u2019s Role in Sequential Art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wickersham, Ron. \u201cEvolution Then Revolution: Experiments in the Grateful Dead\u2019s Live and Recorded Sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams, Jay. \u201cThe Zeitgeist of the Bohemian Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wood, Brent. \u201cAt the Greek: Garcia\u2019s Tragic Catharsis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roundtable Discussions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cA Psychedelic Renaissance: The Poster Art of the Dead and the Haight-Ashbury.\u201d Chair<\/em>: John Lyons. Panelists<\/em>: Dennis Larkins, Stanley Mouse, Lee Conklin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Haight: The Evolution of the Poster Art of the Dead.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Chris Shaw. Panelists<\/em>: Richard Biffle, Gary Houston, Chuck Sperry, Alexandra Fischer.<\/p>\n

\u201cCinematically Dead: Creating the Grateful Dead Documentary.\u201d Chair<\/em>: David Lemieux. Panelists<\/em>: Amir Bar-Lev, Ken Dornstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cClassically Dead: The Aquilanti-Weir Orchestration Project.\u201d Chair<\/em>: David Gans. Panelists<\/em>: Giancarlo Aquilanti, Helen Baldovinos, Bob Bralove.<\/p>\n

\u201cContinuities and Discontinuities in the Deadhead Community: The Family, Deadheads, and Jam Band Fans.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Rebecca G. Adams. Panelists<\/em>: John Perry Barlow, Justin Lane.<\/p>\n

\u201cCooking for the Dead: The Culinary Arts and the Philosophy of the Grateful Dead.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Kimball Jones. Panelists<\/em>: Chez Ray Sewell, Moaya Scheiman, Kevin Weinberg.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Dark Star’ as Ouija Board: When Is the Spirit There?”\u00a0Chair<\/em>: Henry Kaiser. Panelists<\/em>: Bob Bralove, Kidd Candelario.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Mercy\u2019s In Business\u201d: The Grateful Dead and the Business World. Chair<\/em>: Peter McQuaid. Panelists<\/em>: Roger McNamee, Charlie Winton.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncubating the Dead: The Folk Scene and the Roots of San Francisco Rock.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Michael Parrish. Panelists<\/em>: Peter Albin, Pete Grant, Glenn Howard, Marshall Leicester, Eric Thompson.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganically Dead: The Sustainable Agriculture Movement and the Legacy of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon.”\u00a0Chair<\/em>: Irene Reti. Panelists<\/em>: Mark Lipson, Bob Scowcroft.<\/p>\n

\u201cPassing the Acid Test: Consciousness, Community, and Celebration in the Grateful Dead.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Adrian Marin. Panelists<\/em>: Carolyn Adams Garcia, Wavy Gravy.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeriodically Dead: Deadhead Journalism and Journalists.\u201d Chair<\/em>: David Gans. Panelists<\/em>: Blair Jackson, Steve Silberman.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaising the Dead and Opening the Vault: Shaping the Recorded Legacy of the Grateful Dead.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Nicholas G. Meriwether. Panelists<\/em>: David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus.<\/p>\n

\u201cResurrecting Jerry Garcia for the Digital Age.\u201d Chair<\/em>: Marc Allan. Panelists<\/em>: Mark Silverman, Trixie Garcia.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Ripple In Still Water’: Reassessing the Rise and Psychedelic Diaspora of the Haight-Ashbury Community, the Grateful Dead, Dance Concert Posters, and the Road Less Traveled.”\u00a0Chair<\/em>: John Lyons. Panelist<\/em>: Jacaeber Kastor.<\/p>\n

\u201cStay in Your Own Movie\u201d: The Making of Sunshine Daydream. Moderator: Adrian Marin. Panelists: Sam Field, Joe Valentine.<\/p>\n

\u201c’The More That You Give’: Philanthropy, Philosophy, and the Rex Foundation.” Chair<\/em>: John Leopold. Panelists<\/em>: Carolyn Adams Garcia, Cameron Sears, Sandra Sohcot.<\/p>\n

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