Concepts We'll Ponder

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Identity, Improvisation, and Community in the Phish Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvStephanie C. Jenkins,Natalie J. Dollar,Dana Reason

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Concepts We’ll Ponder: Identity, Improvisation, and Community in the Phish Experience launches the rapidly growing field of Phish Studies by revealing how the band’s music and culture offer meaningful insights that extend beyond concert grounds into broader social, cultural, and political phenomena. Emerging from the inaugural Phish Studies Conference at Oregon State University, its sixteen innovative essays embody an ethos of serious play; the essays adopt creativity, joy, and improvisation as tools for scholarly inquiry.Distinctively interdisciplinary, the collection draws from diverse disciplines including musicology, communications, statistics, and philosophy. By blending academic methods with passionate “phan” encyclopedic knowledge, the authors of this volume challenge traditional hierarchies between fan/scholar, personal/professional, and high/low culture. They explore “phan” identity, decode the complexities of famous jams, examine concerts as healing spaces, analyze show ratings, and more. In their examinations of the “Camden Chalk Dust,” “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent,” and the “Phish Chicks” community, and beyond, these scholars invite readers to treat Phish as an “intellectual playground” and explore the significance of the Phish experience.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-22
Mått160 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt720 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFor the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Antal sidor408
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666955187

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Foreword by Benjy EisenAcknowledgmentsEditors’ IntroductionStephanie JenkinsHow I’m Forced To Learn: MethodologiesChapter 1: We Are Aphicionados! We Are Vernacular Theorists! A Critical Reconsideration and Anti-Hegemonic Recasting of Phish, Phandon, and Fan PraxisJnan BlauChapter 2: Read The Book: Experiencing Philosophy in the Classroom with PhishStephanie C. JenkinsCompanions On This Ride: Phish Fan Community and IdentityChapter 3: I Strive to Convey What You Strive to Condone’: Phish Scene Identity andUnderstanding AmericaElizabeth A. YeagerChapter 4: A Cultural Rhetorical Model of Identity for DispersedCommunities: Case of Jam Band CommunitiesNatalie J. Dollar, Nicholas Dahl, & Alexa TawzerChapter 5: Donuts, Dresses and Phish: The Effects of Trademark Law on the Production of Culture Inside and Outside of the Phish SceneDaniel W. DylanChapter 6: Phish Fan’s Performance of Resistance, Recuperation, and ReiterationChristina L. AllabackWe’re All in This Together: Gender and Accessibility in the Phish CommunityChapter 7: Inside this Silent Scene, All Are Free: An Assessment of Accessibility Issues Facing Deaf/Hard of Hearing (HoH) Fans at Phish ConcertsJoel GershonChapter 8: You Were the Song That My Soul Understood: Personal Connections Through Shared Discourse in Facebook Community, Phish ChicksDenise GoldmanHealing The SymptomsChapter 9: From the Concert to the Couch: Phish and the Therapeutic AllianceIsaac SloneChapter 10: Community Through the Phellowship: A Support Group of Phans who Choose to Remain SoberJohn BoatnerShiny Music That Descends From Overhead: The Significance of Musical Structure and ImprovisationChapter 11: On the Persistence of the Groove: Structural Fog and Jouissance in a ‘Split Open and Melt’ JamSteven RealeChapter 12: ’Up the Mountain’: The Compositional Use of the Arpeggiated Augmented Triad in Anastasio’s ‘Colonel Forbin’s Ascent’Julie Viscardi-SmalleyChapter 13: The Camden ‘Chalk Dust Torture’ as a Model for Understanding Improvisational AestheticsJacob A. CohenChapter 14: An Ethnographic & Feminist Listen-In: Riffing on Phish Through the Influences of Improvised Music Histories and Collective PracticesDana Reason Do You Have to Count Them?: Setlists and Ratings Chapter 15: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Setlist Structure AnalysisMatthew SottileChapter 16: “Waiting, Calculating:” Phish Setlists and Fans’ Show RatingsPaul Jakus

"Born out of the first-ever Phish Studies Conference, this landmark volume showcases the extraordinary range of scholarship exploring the Phish phenomenon. With essays that are as innovative as they are insightful, the book demonstrates how the band, their music, and the fan community inspire both rigorous academic inquiry and joyful curiosity. Multidisciplinary and vast in scope, this collection makes a serious scholarly contribution to the burgeoning field of Phish Studies, deepening our appreciation of a cultural movement that is both widely misunderstood and profoundly significant in American life."