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THE BOOK
OF THE DEAD

A Comprehensive Grateful Dead Research Library

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SECTION I: BOOKS ABOUT THE GRATEFUL DEAD

A. Foundational Histories & Biographies

B. Reference, Encyclopedia & Academic Works

C. Memoirs, Personal Accounts & Fan Perspectives

D. Photography & Visual Books

E. Technical, Gear & Music-Focused Works

F. Robert Hunter — Works by the Lyricist

G. Jerry Garcia Solo & Extended Accounts

H. Mickey Hart & Rhythm/World Music

I. John Perry Barlow & Cyberculture

J. Context & Broader Histories

K. Women of the Grateful Dead

L. Taping Culture, Live Archive & the Community of Listeners

L. Taping Culture, Live Archive & the Community of Listeners

SECTION II: SAN FRANCISCO PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENT & 1960s COUNTERCULTURE

A. Essential Primary Texts — Eyewitness Accounts

C. LSD, Psychedelics & Consciousness

D. Merry Pranksters, Kesey & Related

E. Music Scene: San Francisco Rock, Promoters & Venues

F. Diggers, Communes & Social Movements

F. Diggers, Communes & Social Movements

SECTION III: THE BEAT GENERATION

A. Primary Texts — Works by the Beat Writers

B. Biographies & Critical Studies

C. Anthologies, Reference & Cultural Studies

C. Anthologies, Reference & Cultural Studies

SECTION IV: ROBERT HUNTER — INFLUENCES & CREATIVE ROOTS

B. British Romantic Poetry — Ancestral Influences

C. James Joyce — Modernist Wordplay & Mythic Structure

D. T.S. Eliot — The Directly Cited Influence

E. American Folk, Appalachian & Blues Traditions

F. American Literature — Core Hunter Influences

G. Richard Brautigan — The SF Bridge Figure

G. Beat Influences on Hunter Directly

H. Mysticism, Gnosticism & World Spiritual Traditions

I. W.B. Yeats — Special Influence

K. Classical Mythology & World Folklore — Structural Sources

K. Classical Mythology & World Folklore — Structural Sources

SECTION V: JAM BAND SCENE & CULTURE

A. Scene Histories & Oral Histories

B. The Industry: Promoters, Venues & the Concert Business

C. Phish

D. Blues Traveler & H.O.R.D.E.

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

K. Adjacent Scene Books — Allman Brothers & Southern Rock

K. Adjacent Scene Books — Allman Brothers & Southern Rock

SECTION VI: JOHN PERRY BARLOW — BIOGRAPHY, THE EFF & THE DIGITAL FRONTIER

C. Teilhard de Chardin & the Noosphere

D. The Electronic Frontier Foundation — History & Key Cases

E. From Counterculture to Cyberculture

F. Hacker Culture & The Early Internet

G. Internet Freedom, Surveillance & Digital Rights

H. Cyberpunk Fiction — The Literary Imagination of the Digital Frontier

I. Freedom of the Press, Whistleblowing & Journalism

J. The WELL, Early Online Community & Digital Utopianism

J. The WELL, Early Online Community & Digital Utopianism

SECTION VII: OWSLEY STANLEY, SOUND ENGINEERING & THE WALL OF SOUND

SECTION VIII: PSYCHEDELIC POSTER ART & VISUAL CULTURE

SECTION IX: NEW JOURNALISM & COUNTERCULTURAL MEDIA

SECTION X: MUSIC IMPROVISATION THEORY

SECTION XI: THE SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE POETS

A. Critical Overview

B. Michael McClure — Direct Dead Connection

C. Lew Welch — The Lost Poet

D. Philip Whalen — The Poet-Monk

F. Robert Duncan — The Magician

G. Kenneth Rexroth — The Founding Father

H. William Everson / Brother Antoninus

H. William Everson / Brother Antoninus

SECTION XII: BUDDHISM, ZEN & EASTERN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

SECTION XIII: FILM, DOCUMENTARY & MEDIA STUDIES

SECTION XIV: DEADHEAD FICTION, NICHE LITERARY SUB-GENRE & ACADEMIC JOURNALS

A. Deadhead Fiction

B. Deadhead Nonfiction & Memoir

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

B. The Concert Industry — Consolidation, Monopoly & the Live Music Economy

C. Music Business Reference & Artist Survival

D. The Economics of Art & the Gift Economy

A. Celebrity Deadhead Memoirs

B. The Dead as Business Model & Marketing Innovation

B. The Dead as Business Model & Marketing Innovation

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