Music and the divine: the acid tests and their role in the Grateful Dead's foundation story

In this article I discuss the way in which the Acid Tests, multimedia parties organized by author Ken Kesey in 1965 and 1966, were interpreted by the Grateful Dead, who played at the Acid Tests and were one of the most successful of the bands to emerge from the 1960s psychedelic scene in rock. In ex...

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Main Author: Kaler, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-15
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Acid-Test (Event) / Grateful Dead (Music group) / Founding / Myth / New religion / History 1965-1970
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBQ North America
TK Recent history
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