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COLLABORATIVE PEDAGOGY: TEACHING (WITH) THE GRATEFUL DEAD ON TOUR, ON CAMPUS, AND ONLINE

Adams, Rebecca G. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This essay describes my experiences teaching with the Grateful Dead “on tour” in 1989, on campus in the early 2000s, and online in 2019. Using a life course framework, I discuss how my own development as a teacher, Deadhead, ...
DISCOURSING THE GRATEFUL DEAD: SCHOLARS, FANS, AND THE 2020 MEETING OF SOUTHWEST POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

Meriwether, Nicholas G. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Academic conferences serve many functions but at heart they are pedagogical enterprises, designed to teach, share, and refine knowledge. This paper uses the 2020 meeting of the Grateful Dead area of the Southwest ...
REVIEW OF THE TRAGIC ODES OF JERRY GARCIA AND THE GRATEFUL DEAD: MYSTERY DANCES IN THE MAGIC THEATER, BY BRENT WOOD

Coffman, Christopher K. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Brent Wood’s The Tragic Odes of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead: Mystery Dances in the Magic Theater is the latest volume in the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Like other texts in the series, it undertakes ...
TEACHING (AND STUDYING) THE MUSIC OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD

Felix, Brian (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This article aims to provide answers to two questions: why teach about the music of the Grateful Dead, and how to do so? In an effort to engage the former, this article examines the ways that the Grateful Dead provides a ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD, HAPPENINGS, & SPONTANEOUS PEDAGOGY

Slesinger, Ryan (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

To teach a course on the Grateful Dead I developed a praxis I call “spontaneous pedagogy” that pairs academic rigor with flexible curriculum details to enable creativity and engagement among students in a truly student-centered ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD PHENOMENON AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Dollar, Natalie (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Communication studies is particularly well-situated for teaching a course about the Grateful Dead phenomenon and using the phenomenon to teach discipline-specific content. This combination, teaching “the” Grateful Dead and ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD WITH NIETZSCHE’S BIRTH OF TRAGEDY

Spector, Stanley J. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Friedrich Nietzsche published his first work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music in 1872 and his last work, Ecce Homo in 1888. In not only these two works, but also in his other writings as well, one of the ...
TEACHING WITH THE DEAD: A SHORT PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE

Weiner, Rob (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This essay is a personal remembrance of teaching an Honors course related to the Grateful Dead, the Beat Generation, and the Counterculture at Texas Tech University during the Spring of 2019. It describes the readings, ...
A TOUCH OF GREY: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD TO SENIORS

Trudeau, Robert (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This essay reflects on several occasions in which I was a facilitator introducing the music of the Grateful Dead to groups of senior citizens. Several themes emerge: First, there is the need to separate the facilitator’s ...