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Journal Article
\Comedy Is What We're Really About\: The Grateful Dead in a Comic Frame
2020
Overview
[...]even after the band's death, its surviving members continue, zombie-like, to roam the earth performing as Dead and Company, drawing life from the blood of their young guitarist John Mayer and the wallets of the nostalgic. [...]Burke's comic frame explains Garcia's attitude toward his philosophical and pharmacological self-exploration.1 This study focuses on the use of tragic, Romantic, and comic frames both in writings about the Grateful Dead written for mass audiences – biographies, autobiographies, magazine articles, and interviews — and in scholarly works in the multidisciplinary field of Grateful Dead studies.2 The latter works have much in common with the popular and fan-oriented genres since, as Nicholas G. Meriwether writes, \"One of the most interesting aspects of the scholarship on the Grateful Dead phenomenon is its outspoken partisanship\" (\"The Thousand Stories\" 35). Stanley Spector cites Heidegger in order to celebrate the ineffable \"'isness' of everything\" experienced at Dead shows, David Malvinni invokes Heidegger and Deleuze to endorse the \"telepathy\" and the \"X factor\" as constituents in the phenomenon of \"Deadness,\" and Mark Tursi musters Arendt, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard, and Marx to caution that the essence of the Grateful Dead phenomenon will be sullied if too much academic attention leads to its \"assimilation\" into the status quo (Spector 232, Malvinni 26, Tursi 214.) [...]can the Grateful Dead story be told as a series of tragedies ending in the final tragedy of Garcia's death. To fully acknowledge the tragic frame is to recognize that of course, Garcia's life ended this way; his last 20 years – right up to the end – featured repeated vows to moderate or cease his drug use, interventions, aborted trips to rehab, and short stretches of abstinence followed by relapse.
Publisher
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
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