Musicologist and classical guitarist, David Malvinni is adjunct professor of Music and African-American studies at Santa Barbara Community College and author of The Gypsy Caravan: From Real Roma to Imaginary Gypsies in Western Music and Film (Routledge, 2004).
Offering a philosophical framework, Grateful Dead and the Art of
Rock Improvisation provides an aesthetic appreciation of the
musical stylings of this legendary band. A seminal work of
outstanding and original scholarship, Grateful Dead and the Art of
Rock Improvisation is written in a form and format that will make
it easily accessible to non-specialist general readers and fans of
the Grateful Dead. Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation
is a highly recommended addition to academic library Popular
Culture and 20th Century American Music reference collections and
supplemental reading lists.
*Midwest Book Review*
David Malvinni’s Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation is
. . . a necessary addition to the growing secondary literature on
the music of the Grateful Dead.
*Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association*
As the first scholarly monograph on the music of the Grateful Dead,
David Malvinni’s Grateful Dead and the Art of Rock Improvisation is
a significant addition to popular music scholarship. Although
numerous edited volumes of essays focused on the band have been
published in the two decades since the band’s demise after the
death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, this is the first by a single
author to focus entirely on a musicological assessment. And since
it has often been the sociological aspects of the Grateful Dead
phenomenon that have received the most attention, especially the
audience, the colorful fans known as Deadheads, it is a refreshing
change for a scholar to focus entirely on what should be of primary
importance for a musical ensemble: its music.
*Critical Studies in Improvisation*
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