Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
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Book Overview NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A MULANEY READS PICK - A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture throu...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A MULANEY READS PICK - A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band
"By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have known for years: that Jerry Garcia was more than a world-class musician, he was an American icon."--Trixie Garcia
In 1965, in Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler, a "gift of the grateful dead." After a traumatic car accident that injured him and killed a close friend, Garcia had resolved to build his life around music. He had practiced relentlessly and caromed across the northern California folk and bluegrass scene. He had gathered up some fellow musicians and formed a band.
Now they had their name.
Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. The Dead played at the Acid Tests and the Human Be-In and Woodstock, at the occupation of Columbia and the Bail Ball for People's Park. They performed at the base of the Pyramids during a lunar eclipse, at Madison Square Garden to defend the rainforests, in San Francisco to sound the alarm over AIDS and at Huey Newton's birthday party. For three decades, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom.
The radical message of the Dead, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community, radiated across the world, manifesting itself in art, music, business, and politics. Here Beside the Rising Tide tells the story of those disparate shafts of light, putting Garcia into a broader context while tracing his eventful life.
Nearly a century after his birth, Garcia's influence stretches onward, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life, one of excellence and gratitude, chasing freedom, living moment to moment, guided by song--the gift of the Grateful Dead.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 528 | Language: English | Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE | ISBN: 0593447050
FormatHardcover
Pages528
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0593447050
EAN9780593447055
PublisherRANDOM HOUSE
Publication Date2025-08-05
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.8 Pounds
Length9.42 Inches
Width6.44 Inches
Height1.62 Inches
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