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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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2015]
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| 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
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America TK Recent history |
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Volltext (doi) |