Perspectives on the Grateful Dead

ROBERT G. WEINER is a Reference Librarian at the Mahon Library in Lubbock, Texas. He is the co-author, along with David G. Dodd, of an annotated bibliography of literature on the Grateful Dead entitled, The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads (Greenwood, 1997).

• Foreword by Rebecca G. AdamsIntroduction by Robert G. WeinerPrecisely How and Why I Didn't Kill Jerry: Ethnography, Surrealism, and The Millennium Shows by Philip E. BaruthA Pilot Study in Dream Telepathy with the Grateful Dead by Stanley KrippnerLegally Dead: The Grateful Dead and American Legal Culture by David Fraser and Vaughan BlackThe Grateful Dead Onstage in "World Music" by Thomas Vennum, Jr."No, but I've Been to Shows": Accepting the Dead and Rejecting the Deadheads by David L. PelovitzWhy Are There So Many Jewish Deadheads? by Douglas M. GertnerBakhtinian Carnival, Corporate Capital, and the Last Decade of the Dead by Brad LucasUnderstanding "Show" as a Deadhead Speech Situation by Natalie DollarIs There a Day of the Month Effect in "Beat It On Down the Line?" by Robert K. ToutkoushianThe Grateful Dead Experience: A Factor Analytic Study of the Personalities of People Who Identify with the Grateful Dead by William McCown and Wendy L. Dulaney"High Time" and Ambiguous Harmonic Function by Walter EverettSpace, Motion, and Other Musical Metaphors by Shaugn O'DonnellThe Grateful Dead Legendstock: Based on Alan Trist's Water of Life -- A Tale of the Grateful Dead by Marjorie C. LuesebrinkThe Grateful Dead vs. the American Dream? by Jason PalmThe Annotated "Ramble on Rose": An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (a work in progress) by David Dodd"Laid my proposition down/Laid it on the line": Gambling and the Storyteller in Robert Hunter's Lyrics by Anissa CragheadGrateful Dead: Manifestations from the Collective Unconscious by Mary GoodenoughClinging to the Edge of Magic: Shamanic Aspects of the Grateful Dead by Nancy ReistThe Grateful Dead as Community by Rachel WilgorenDeadhead Tales of the Supernatural: A Folkloristic Analysis by Revell CarrThe Piping of Heaven: Reckless Musings on Philosophical Taoism and the Grateful Dead Phenomenon by Joseph P. Noonan IIIThe Ripple Effect by Joseph HoltAfterwordThe Curriculum of Joy by Steve Silberman