The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead: Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater

ISBN-13: 9781032237367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Brent Wood; Lori Burns; Stan Hawkins

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The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead is a multifaceted study of tragedy in the group’s live performances, showing how Garcia engineered psychic renewal by leading songs of grief, mortality, and ironic fate in a participatory theatrical context focused on catharsis through dance and communal sublime experience.

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Introduction: Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater

1 "Morning Dew" and the Greek Theatre

2 "Death Don’t Have No Mercy": Catharsis and Redemption

Death Don’t Have No Mercy * He Was a Friend of Mine

Cryptical Envelopment * Brokedown Palace * Bird Song * He’s Gone

3 Befriending Chaos: "Dark Star," Dionysus and Psychedelics

4 Dancing to Fateful Folk Tales

Reuben and Cherise * Fennario * Dire Wolf * Sugaree

Dupree’s Diamond Blues * Stagger Lee * Casey Jones

5 Meditations on Mortality, from Uncle John to Stella Blue

Uncle John’s Band * New Speedway Boogie * Black Peter * Loser

Wharf Rat * China Doll * It Must Have Been the Roses * Stella Blue

6 Chasing the Dragon and Escaping the Netherworld

Fire on the Mountain * Comes a Time * Althea

Black Muddy River * Standing on the Moon

7 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Dylan and Garcia

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue * She Belongs to Me * The Mighty Quinn

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door * Visions of Johanna

8 Is it the End or Beginning?

So Many Roads * Days Between * Mason’s Children

9 The Rebirth of Tragedy

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Brent Wood is Lecturer in the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada, and is the author of several articles on the music and poetry of the Grateful Dead.