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Live Dead
- Author
- John Brackett
- Narrator
- Christopher Grove
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 19 November 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- John Brackett
- Narrator
- Christopher Grove
- Duration
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 November 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855548648
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Music recording and reproduction, Music, History of music, Music reviews and criticism, Popular music
Synopsis
The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead's reputation as a "live band" was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group's long and colorful career. In Live Dead, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group's official releases to fan-produced tapes, bootlegs to "Betty Boards," and Dick's Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years. Drawing on a diverse array of materials and documents contained in the Grateful Dead Archive, Live Dead details how live recordings became meaningful among the band and their fans not only as sonic souvenirs of past musical performances but also as expressions of assorted ideals, including notions of "liveness," authenticity, and the power of recorded sound.
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