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February 8, 2006
Day one of the 2006 Dead Caucus
I arrived in Albuquerque yesterday because today is the first day of what we are pleased to call the Dead Conference or the Dead Caucus at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Assocation’s annual conference. Technically, Grateful Dead is an “area” or sequence of panels threaded through the conference schedule.
(Other areas include Atomic Culture, Biography, Chicana/Chicano Literature, Cormac McCarthy, Rap and Hip-Hop Culture, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Shakespeare on Film and Television, Women’s Studies, The Beat Generation and the Counterculture, Computer Culture, and much, much more!)
This is the ninth year that there’s been a Grateful Dead area at the conference and our caucus has grown steadily, with every year an astounding range of perspectives on the Grateful Dead from a truly multidisciplinary set of academic fields (including oral history, musicology, sociology, psychology, information technology, philosophy, business, statistical analysis, and more).
I’ll do my best this week to post a little something each day about the proceedings.
Things start off today (at 1 pm, in less than ten minutes!) with “Grateful Dead 1” in Pavilion V:
Panel Chair: Gary Burnett, Florida State University:
- My First Dead Show (Adam Perry, Independent Scholar)
- “When the Secrets All Are Told and the Petals All Unfold”: On Joycean Epiphany in Hunter/Garcia’s “Wharf Rat” (Eric Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago)
At 3:00 we have “Grateful Dead 2”:
Postmodern Crossings: Nomad Music, the X-Factor, and Grateful Dead Communitas
Panel Chair: Nicholas Meriwether, Editor, Dead Letters
Discussants:
- Stan Spector, Modesto Junior College
- Jim Tuedio, California State University, Stanislaus
At 5:00 we have “Grateful Dead 3,” which includes my first contribution:
Panel Chair: Eric Levy, University of Illinois at Chicago
- The Grateful Dead’s Anti-Structural Phenomenon: Creating and Negotiating Communitas through Art and Improvisation, Amanda Hirsh, Independent Scholar
- Of Wikis, Archives, and Information: The Challenges of an Online Grateful Dead Community, Gary Burnett, Florida State University
- Get Back Blogging On: A Survey of Grateful Dead Related Blogs, Christian Crumlish, Uncle John’s Blog and Wiki the Flood
And we finish today at 7:00 with “Grateful Dead 4”:
[Note: This panel was cancelled.]
Online Tape Archives and Community
Panel Chair: Amanda Hirsch, Independent Scholar
Discussants:
- Gary Burnett, Florida State University
- Alan Lehman, University of Maryland
- David Gans, Musician & Host, Grateful Dead Hour
OK, now I’m late! I’ll fix any typos later.
Posted by xian at February 8, 2006 11:09 AM
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Comments
OK, I'm really, really jealous. Sounds like a great time, facinating as well!
Posted by: Ben at February 8, 2006 5:47 PM
I can't believe you guys didn't invite me. Joke.
Eric Levy, you're swingin' some mighty large lumber there. I'd love to read it!
Posted by: dB at March 1, 2006 5:36 PM