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Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by David Malvinni


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Although fans and scholars alike recognize the Grateful Dead as icons of the psychedelic music, the band's improvisatory approach still remains an enigma to the uninitiated. In Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation, Malvinni unravels this mystery, walking readers through the band's musical decision-making process. Written for rock music fans with little to no background in music theory and scholars and students of popular music culture, the book reveal the method behind the seeming madness of America's greatest jam band.

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  • Title Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation
  • Author David Malvinni
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scarecrow Press
  • Date 2013-02-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780810882553 / 0810882558
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock music - History and criticism, Improvisation (Music)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012038584
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

About the author

Musicologist and classical guitarist, David Malvinni is adjunct professor of Music and African-American studies at Santa Barbara Community College and author of The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music and Film (Routledge, 2004).
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New. More than fifteen years since the death of lead guitarist and singer Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead stand as a symbol of the unresolved cultural clashes of the 1960s. The band's thirty-year odyssey is a testament to the American imagination, with thousands of live concert recordings by fans and the band itself, preserved alongside an impressive array of images, artwork, and paraphernalia. Most recently, the Grateful Dead have released from their vault their entire 1972 European tour, one of the largest boxed sets of live music-seventy-three compact discs-ever released. This publicly available archive of recorded music lays the groundwork for David Malvinni's exploration of the band's musical signature as the ultimate jam band in Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation. Malvinni considers a select group of songs from the Dead's early repertoire, from its unique covers of "Viola Lee Blues," "Midnight Hour," and "Love… Read More
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