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天美传媒视频无限制观看 professor available as a resource on Grateful Dead reunion

天美传媒视频无限制观看 professor available as a resource on Grateful Dead reunion

天美传媒视频无限制观看 Professor, who spoke at recent Grateful Dead conference, shares his perspectives on core four鈥檚 final shows and their place in American cultural history: 鈥 The metaphysics of time and space聽 -- even with the absence of bandleader Jerry Garcia 鈥 will be resurrected鈥︹

Philip Eliasoph Anticipating a keynote address by Grateful Dead expert, Nicholas G. Meriwether, at 天美传媒视频无限制观看鈥檚 鈥楥elebrating American Studies鈥 Conference on Saturday, March 28, 2015, the University is right in step with the national buzz over the legendary band鈥檚 50 th Reunion this summer.聽The Dead鈥檚 surviving members are reuniting for three shows in what will be the last performances by the 鈥榗ore four.鈥 聽It鈥檚 a seminal moment not only in music history, but American cultural history, said Philip Eliasoph, Ph.D., 天美传媒视频无限制观看 Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Dr. Eliasoph presented a groundbreaking Art History paper at a recent conference, 鈥淪o Many Roads: The World of the Grateful Dead,鈥 organized by the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California at Santa Cruz and staged at San Jose State University, attended by 120 scholars, film makers, documentarians, 聽journalists, musicologists, and first-hand veterans of the San Francisco scene.

鈥淚magine if the four Beatles were to be re-united for a lightning bolt show at a stadium in the heart of the USA, if a 鈥榙ream team鈥 of NBA basketball鈥檚 five legends were to re-unite for a one shot Olympic event, or our heroic top three Apollo astronauts decided to fly to the moon 鈥榡ust one more time鈥 as a redux 鈥 approximates this 鈥榦nce in a lifetime鈥 moment,鈥 said Dr. Eliasoph. 鈥淭he tribes of the counter culture of the Sixties and a new generation of Millennial fans and Phish inspire jammers will be聽converging at Soldiers Field, Chicago for the Grateful Dead鈥檚 50 th reunion over July 4 th week.聽 The metaphysics of time and space聽 -- even with the absence of bandleader Jerry Garcia 鈥 will be resurrected when the 鈥楥ore Four鈥 鈥 Lesh, Hart, Kreutzmann, and Weir plug in for the three-night celebration. Their endless riffs, born out of the bedrock of American Delta blues, Texas twang country/western, and cosmic psychedelic 鈥楢cid rock鈥 is a continuously long jam session.聽 Garcia once said: 鈥楨very night we played we felt it was like going to church 鈥 maybe a pretty 鈥榝ar out鈥 church 鈥 but a spiritual experience nonetheless.鈥 鈥

鈥淭his incomparable musical legacy emerged out of the San Francisco鈥檚 鈥榖eatnik鈥 scene of the late 1950s in聽North Beach, Lawrence Ferlinghetti鈥檚 poetry, Allen Ginsberg鈥檚 鈥楬owl鈥, Jack Kerouac鈥檚 鈥極n the Road鈥 and the proto-hippie- Merry Pranksters 鈥 all American non-conformists attempting to discover that long journey and path back to our American roots of individualism and freedom,鈥 commented Dr. Eliasoph.

In Dr. Eliasoph鈥檚 research, he discovered a rich legacy of Dead iconography which has cleverly recycled and revived many of the key styles and movements of western art.聽From images on Greek vases of Dionysian rites, to the medieval danse macabre, or those flowing, organic Art Nouveau designs of Belle Epoch Paris, Grateful Dead posters and album art found an echoing resonance across the centuries.

At the upcoming Fairfield conference, Nicholas G. Meriwether, the Founding Director of the Grateful Dead Archive housed at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will offer an overview of his first-hand contact with original band members and key participants in the emerging San Francisco acid rock scene launching the youth rebellion of the 1960s. Educated at Princeton and Oxford, he has become the central hub in the wheel out at 鈥淒ead Central鈥 鈥 in charge of massive original materials about the band and its role in American cultural history. For details, visit http://www.fairfield.edu/academics/schoolscollegescenters/collegeofartssciences/graduateprograms/mainamericanstudies/events/.

Posted On: 01-29-2015 03:01 PM

Volume: 47 Number: 165