SECTION I: BOOKS ABOUT THE GRATEFUL DEAD
A. Foundational Histories & Biographies
- 1. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- 2. Garcia: An American Life
- 3. The Dead Book: A Social History of the Grateful Dead
- 4. The Dead
- 5. Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead
- 6. Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped
- 7. Conversations With the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book
- 8. This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
- 9. Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Dead
- 10. Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road With the Grateful Dead
- 11. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs With the Grateful Dead
- 12. Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead
- 13. Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead
- 14. Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip
B. Reference, Encyclopedia & Academic Works
- 15. Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads
- 16. The American Book of the Dead: The Definitive Grateful Dead Encyclopedia
- 17. The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography
- 18. The Annotated 'Grateful Dead' Lyrics
- 19. Dead Base XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists
- 20. Dead to the Core: An Almanack of the Grateful Dead
- 21. Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey
- 22. Studying the Dead: The Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, An Informal History
- 23. All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
- 24. The Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation
- 25. Deadhead Social Science: You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want To Know
- 26. Perspectives on the Grateful Dead
- 27. Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
- 28. No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead
- 29. Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded About Love and Haight
- 30. Dead Letters: Grateful Dead Studies
C. Memoirs, Personal Accounts & Fan Perspectives
- 31. Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
- 32. Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends, and Followers of the Grateful Dead
- 33. Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia
- 34. Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out
- 35. Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure
- 36. One More Saturday Night: Reflections With The Grateful Dead, Dead Family...
- 37. Dancing With the Dead: A Photographic Memoir
- 38. So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
- 39. Fare Thee Well: Living Grateful Dead
D. Photography & Visual Books
- 40. The Grateful Dead Family Album
- 41. The Book of the Dead: Celebrating 25 Years With the Grateful Dead
- 42. Sunshine Daydreams: A Grateful Dead Journal
- 43. Dead Days: A Grateful Dead Illustrated History
- 44. Grateful Dead: The Unauthorized Edition
- 45. Between the Dark and Light: The Grateful Dead Photography of Jay Blakesberg
- 46. Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965–1995
- 47. Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams
E. Technical, Gear & Music-Focused Works
- 48. A Box of Rain: Lyrics 1965–1993
- 49. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
- 50. Night Cadre: New Poems
F. Robert Hunter — Works by the Lyricist
- 48. A Box of Rain: Lyrics 1965–1993
- 49. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
- 50. Night Cadre: New Poems
- 51. Sentinel (New Poems)
- 52. Glass Lunch: A Collection of Poems
- 53. Idiot's Delight
- 54. The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead—The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter
- 55. Infinity Minus Eleven
- 56. Tales of the Great Rum Runners
- 57. Tiger Rose
- 58. Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
- 59. Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
- 60. Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork
G. Jerry Garcia Solo & Extended Accounts
- 60. Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork
- 61. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia
- 62. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
H. Mickey Hart & Rhythm/World Music
- 63. Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey Into the Spirit of Percussion
- 64. Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm
- 65. Songlines: The Musical DNA of Human Evolution
I. John Perry Barlow & Cyberculture
J. Context & Broader Histories
- 67. Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
- 68. Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead
- 69. Aces Back to Back: A Guide to the Grateful Dead
- 70. 60 Years of The Grateful Dead Experience
K. Women of the Grateful Dead
- 71. Dancing with the Dead: A Photographic Memoir — My Good Old Days with the Grateful Dead & the San Francisco Music Scene 1964–1974
- 72. Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- 73. You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Adventures
- 74. On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
L. Taping Culture, Live Archive & the Community of Listeners
- 75. After All Is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead 1965–1995
- 76. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- 77. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- 78. The Haight-Ashbury: A History
L. Taping Culture, Live Archive & the Community of Listeners
SECTION II: SAN FRANCISCO PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENT & 1960s COUNTERCULTURE
A. Essential Primary Texts — Eyewitness Accounts
- 77. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- 78. The Haight-Ashbury: A History
- 79. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream
- 80. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD
- 81. On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
- 82. The Further Inquiry
- 83. Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
- 84. Cronies: A Burlesque — Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, the Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead
- 85. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
- 86. Turn It Up! An Illustrated History of the Rock Revolution
- 87. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- 87. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
- 88. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- 89. The Hippies
- 90. Hippie
- 91. Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
- 92. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- 93. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
- 94. Flower Power: San Francisco
- 95. The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll
- 96. LSD: My Problem Child
C. LSD, Psychedelics & Consciousness
- 96. LSD: My Problem Child
- 97. The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell
- 98. The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- 99. High Priest
- 100. The Politics of Ecstasy
- 101. Flashbacks: An Autobiography
- 102. Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
- 103. The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness
- 104. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
- 105. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
- 106. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 107. Sometimes a Great Notion
- 108. Demon Box
- 109. Spit in the Ocean
- 110. The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog
- 111. Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out
D. Merry Pranksters, Kesey & Related
- 106. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 107. Sometimes a Great Notion
- 108. Demon Box
- 109. Spit in the Ocean
- 110. The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog
E. Music Scene: San Francisco Rock, Promoters & Venues
- 111. Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out
- 112. The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
- 113. The Fillmore: The Rise and Fall of the Fillmore, the Psychedelic Era in San Francisco
- 114. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
- 115. Monterey Pop Festival: The Historic 1967 Concert
- 116. Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- 117. The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and the Legacy of the 1960s Communal Movement
F. Diggers, Communes & Social Movements
- 117. The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and the Legacy of the 1960s Communal Movement
- 118. The Hippies and American Values
- 119. Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society
- 120. Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution
- 121. Revolution for the Hell of It
- 122. On the Road
- 123. On the Road: The Original Scroll
F. Diggers, Communes & Social Movements
SECTION III: THE BEAT GENERATION
A. Primary Texts — Works by the Beat Writers
- 122. On the Road
- 123. On the Road: The Original Scroll
- 124. The Dharma Bums
- 125. The Subterraneans
- 126. Doctor Sax
- 127. Maggie Cassidy
- 128. Visions of Cody
- 129. Desolation Angels
- 130. Big Sur
- 131. The Town and the City
- 132. Mexico City Blues
- 133. Scattered Poems
- 134. Book of Dreams
- 135. Visions of Gerard
- 136. Tristessa
- 137. The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
- 138. Howl and Other Poems
- 139. Kaddish and Other Poems
- 140. Reality Sandwiches
- 141. Planet News: 1961–1967
- 142. The Fall of America: Poems of These States
- 143. Mind Breaths
- 144. Howl: Original Draft Facsimile
- 145. Collected Poems 1947–1997
- 146. Indian Journals
- 147. The Yage Letters
- 148. Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict
- 149. Naked Lunch
- 150. The Soft Machine
- 151. The Ticket That Exploded
- 152. Nova Express
- 153. The Wild Boys
- 154. Cities of the Red Night
- 155. The Place of Dead Roads
- 156. The Western Lands
- 157. Exterminator!
- 158. Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
- 159. The First Third and Other Writings
- 160. Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison 1958–60
- 161. As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady
- 162. A Coney Island of the Mind
- 163. Pictures of the Gone World
- 164. Her
- 165. Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History
- 166. Gasoline
- 167. The Happy Birthday of Death
- 168. Long Live Man
- 169. Elegiac Feelings American
- 170. Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
- 171. Myths and Texts
- 172. Turtle Island
- 173. The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964–1979
- 174. The Practice of the Wild
- 175. Memoirs of a Beatnik
- 176. Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
- 177. Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
- 178. Loba
- 179. The Yage Letters
- 180. Pull My Daisy (play/film script)
- 181. The Floating Bear: A Newsletter
- 182. Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression
- 183. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris 1957–1963
B. Biographies & Critical Studies
- 184. Jack Kerouac: A Biography
- 185. Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac
- 186. The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- 187. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
- 188. I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
- 189. Ginsberg: A Biography
- 190. Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
- 191. Call Me Burroughs: A Life
- 192. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Biography
- 193. Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac
- 194. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
C. Anthologies, Reference & Cultural Studies
- 195. The Portable Beat Reader
- 196. The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation
- 197. The Beats: A Literary Reference
- 198. Encyclopedia of the Beat Generation
- 199. The Beat Generation: Visions and Sounds
- 200. The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs
- 201. Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation
- 202. Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats
- 203. Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?
- 204. The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters 1944–1960
- 205. Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
C. Anthologies, Reference & Cultural Studies
SECTION IV: ROBERT HUNTER — INFLUENCES & CREATIVE ROOTS
B. British Romantic Poetry — Ancestral Influences
- 206. Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
- 207. Romantic Poetry and Prose (Oxford Anthology)
- 208. The Collected Poems of William Blake
- 209. Songs of Innocence and Experience
- 210. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
- 211. Odes and Other Poems
- 212. Selected Poetry and Prose of Byron
- 213. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems
C. James Joyce — Modernist Wordplay & Mythic Structure
- 214. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 215. Ulysses
- 216. Finnegans Wake
D. T.S. Eliot — The Directly Cited Influence
E. American Folk, Appalachian & Blues Traditions
- 220. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (10 vols.)
- 221. Folk Song USA: The 111 Best American Ballads
- 222. The Folk Songs of North America
- 223. Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
- 224. Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural Journey to the Crossroads
- 225. Country: The Music and Its Musicians
- 226. Bound for Glory
- 227. Woody Guthrie: A Life
- 228. Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- 229. The Complete Savoy Operas
F. American Literature — Core Hunter Influences
- 228. Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
- 229. The Complete Savoy Operas
- 230. Leaves of Grass
- 231. Trout Fishing in America
- 232. In Watermelon Sugar
- 233. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
- 234. Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
- 235. On the Road
- 236. Howl and Other Poems
- 237. A Coney Island of the Mind
G. Richard Brautigan — The SF Bridge Figure
- 231. Trout Fishing in America
- 232. In Watermelon Sugar
- 233. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
- 234. Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
G. Beat Influences on Hunter Directly
- 235. On the Road
- 236. Howl and Other Poems
- 237. A Coney Island of the Mind
- 238. The First Third
- 239. Turtle Island
- 240. Planet News
H. Mysticism, Gnosticism & World Spiritual Traditions
- 241. The Sufis
- 242. Tales of the Dervishes
- 243. The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq at-Tayr)
- 244. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol)
- 245. The Perennial Philosophy
- 246. The Way of Zen
- 247. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
- 248. The Kabbalah Unveiled
- 249. I Ching, or Book of Changes
- 250. The Upanishads
- 251. Tao Te Ching
I. W.B. Yeats — Special Influence
- 252. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
- 253. A Vision
- 254. The Celtic Twilight: Myth, Fantasy and Folklore
- 255. Letters to a Young Poet
- 256. Duino Elegies
- 257. Sonnets to Orpheus
K. Classical Mythology & World Folklore — Structural Sources
- 258. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 259. The Masks of God (4 vols.)
- 260. The Greek Myths (2 vols.)
- 261. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
- 262. Metamorphoses
- 263. The Odyssey
- 264. Bulfinch's Mythology
- 265. Tarantula
- 266. Chronicles: Volume One
- 267. A Season in Hell / Illuminations
- 268. The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)
- 269. Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
- 270. Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
K. Classical Mythology & World Folklore — Structural Sources
SECTION V: JAM BAND SCENE & CULTURE
A. Scene Histories & Oral Histories
- 271. JAMerica: The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene
- 272. Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed
- 273. Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music, and Scene
B. The Industry: Promoters, Venues & the Concert Business
- 274. The Music Never Stops: What Putting on 10,000 Shows Has Taught Me About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Magic
- 275. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
C. Phish
- 276. The Phishing Manual: A Compendium to the Music of Phish
- 277. Phish: The Biography
- 278. Might as Well: A Novel
- 279. The Phish Book
- 278. Might as Well: A Novel
- 279. The Phish Book
D. Blues Traveler & H.O.R.D.E.
- 280. Suck and Blow: And Other Stories I'm Not Supposed to Tell
- 281. Blues Traveler: Four Chords and the Truth
E. Dave Matthews Band
F. Leftover Salmon & the Boulder/Jamgrass Scene
G. Festival Culture
H. Academic & Cultural Studies
I. Colonel Bruce Hampton & The Atlanta Scene — The Godfather of Jam
- 290. Jackboots on the Infobahn: Clipping the Wings of Freedom
- 291. Barlow Library (collected writings)
- 292. Common Sense
K. Adjacent Scene Books — Allman Brothers & Southern Rock
- 293. The Rights of Man
- 294. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
K. Adjacent Scene Books — Allman Brothers & Southern Rock
SECTION VI: JOHN PERRY BARLOW — BIOGRAPHY, THE EFF & THE DIGITAL FRONTIER
- 286. Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times
- 287. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- 288. The Economy of Ideas: Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net
- 289. Crime and Puzzlement: In Advance of the Law on the Electronic Frontier
- 290. Jackboots on the Infobahn: Clipping the Wings of Freedom
- 291. Barlow Library (collected writings)
- 292. Common Sense
- 293. The Rights of Man
- 294. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
- 295. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 296. The Phenomenon of Man (Le Phénomène Humain)
- 297. The Divine Milieu (Le Milieu Divin)
- 298. The Future of Man (L'Avenir de l'Homme)
- 299. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
C. Teilhard de Chardin & the Noosphere
- 296. The Phenomenon of Man (Le Phénomène Humain)
- 297. The Divine Milieu (Le Milieu Divin)
- 298. The Future of Man (L'Avenir de l'Homme)
D. The Electronic Frontier Foundation — History & Key Cases
- 299. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- 300. Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design
- 301. Privacy's Defender: One Lawyer's Fight Against Government Spying and the Rise of the Surveillance State
E. From Counterculture to Cyberculture
- 302. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
- 303. The Whole Earth Catalog
- 304. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT
- 305. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
- 306. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
- 307. Tools for Conviviality
- 308. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 309. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
F. Hacker Culture & The Early Internet
- 308. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 309. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
- 310. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
- 311. Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
G. Internet Freedom, Surveillance & Digital Rights
- 312. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- 313. Permanent Record
- 314. Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- 315. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
- 316. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
- 317. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
- 318. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
- 319. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
- 320. Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
H. Cyberpunk Fiction — The Literary Imagination of the Digital Frontier
- 321. Neuromancer
- 322. Count Zero
- 323. Mona Lisa Overdrive
- 324. Snow Crash
- 325. Cryptonomicon
- 326. True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
- 327. 1984
- 328. Brave New World
I. Freedom of the Press, Whistleblowing & Journalism
- 329. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
- 330. No Place to Hide
- 331. This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
J. The WELL, Early Online Community & Digital Utopianism
- 332. The Well: A Story of Love, Death, and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community
- 333. The Virtual Community
- 334. Being Digital
- 335. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
- 336. The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- 337. Angle of Repose
- 338. Lonesome Dove
- 339. The Monkey Wrench Gang
J. The WELL, Early Online Community & Digital Utopianism
SECTION VII: OWSLEY STANLEY, SOUND ENGINEERING & THE WALL OF SOUND
- 340. Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
- 340. Owsley and Me: My LSD Family
- 341. Grateful Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions from 1965 to 1995
- 342. You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Adventures
- 343. Bear's Sonic Journals (ongoing series)
SECTION VIII: PSYCHEDELIC POSTER ART & VISUAL CULTURE
- 344. The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk
- 345. The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966–1971
- 346. Dreams Unreal: The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster
- 347. Sex, Rock & Optical Illusions: Victor Moscoso, Master of Psychedelic Posters & Comix
- 348. The Art of Rick Griffin
- 349. High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight Ashbury
- 350. High Art: A History of the Psychedelic Poster
- 351. The Collector's Guide to Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters, Postcards and Handbills 1965–1973
SECTION IX: NEW JOURNALISM & COUNTERCULTURAL MEDIA
- 352. The New Journalism
- 353. The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution
- 354. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
- 355. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
- 356. In Cold Blood
- 357. Dispatches
- 358. The White Album
- 359. The Rolling Stone Interviews (multiple editions)
SECTION X: MUSIC IMPROVISATION THEORY
- 360. Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music
- 361. Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
- 362. Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction
- 363. A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
- 364. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
- 365. Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age
- 366. Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
- 367. Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein
SECTION XI: THE SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE POETS
A. Critical Overview
- 368. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century
- 369. The New American Poetry 1945–1960
B. Michael McClure — Direct Dead Connection
- 370. Ghost Tantras
- 371. The Beard (play)
- 372. Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems
- 373. Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac
C. Lew Welch — The Lost Poet
- 374. Ring of Bone: Collected Poems 1950–1971
- 375. I, Leo: An Unfinished Novel
- 376. How I Work as a Poet & Other Essays / Plays / Stories
D. Philip Whalen — The Poet-Monk
- 377. On Bear's Head: Selected Poems
- 378. Overtime: Selected Poems
- 379. The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
F. Robert Duncan — The Magician
- 380. The Opening of the Field
- 381. Bending the Bow
G. Kenneth Rexroth — The Founding Father
H. William Everson / Brother Antoninus
H. William Everson / Brother Antoninus
SECTION XII: BUDDHISM, ZEN & EASTERN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
- 385. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
- 386. An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
- 387. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- 388. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
- 389. Meditation in Action
- 390. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
- 391. Be Here Now
- 392. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
- 393. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
- 394. A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
- 395. Maps of Consciousness: I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Actualism
- 396. No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
- 397. Spiritual Poetics: An Allen Ginsberg Workshop on the Art of Writing
SECTION XIII: FILM, DOCUMENTARY & MEDIA STUDIES
- 398. Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead
- 399. Anthem to Beauty: The Grateful Dead's Classic Albums
- 400. Festival Express
- 401. Grateful Dead Movie
- 402. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- 403. On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom
- 404. Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir
SECTION XIV: DEADHEAD FICTION, NICHE LITERARY SUB-GENRE & ACADEMIC JOURNALS
A. Deadhead Fiction
- 405. Tiger in a Trance
B. Deadhead Nonfiction & Memoir
- 406. The Deadhead Cyclist: 52 Concerts, 52 Life Lessons from the Songs of the Grateful Dead
- 407. A Tale of Twisted Fate: Adventures in the Intersection of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead
- 408. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
C. Scholarly Journals & Academic Series
C. Scholarly Journals & Academic Series
SECTION XV: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY — TRANSFORMATION, CRISIS & THE LIVE MUSIC ECONOMY
A. The Record Industry — Disruption, Digital Collapse & Streaming
- 411. Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
- 412. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
- 413. Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
- 414. All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster
B. The Concert Industry — Consolidation, Monopoly & the Live Music Economy
- 415. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- 416. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
C. Music Business Reference & Artist Survival
D. The Economics of Art & the Gift Economy
A. Celebrity Deadhead Memoirs
- 420. Back from the Dead: Searching for the Sound, Shining the Light
- 421. Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends, and Followers of the Grateful Dead
B. The Dead as Business Model & Marketing Innovation
- 422. Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History
- 423. Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead: The Ten Most Innovative Lessons from a Long, Strange Trip
- 424. Steve Jobs
- 425. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
B. The Dead as Business Model & Marketing Innovation
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