Shakedown Street: The Grateful Dead and the Commodification of Hippie Culture
Location
Armstrong Campus, Solms Hall, Room 110, Session 1
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis Presentation (Open Access)
Faculty Mentor
Dr. Alena Pirok
Faculty Mentor Email
apirok@georgiasouthern.edu
Presentation Year
2022
Start Date
29-4-2022 12:50 PM
End Date
29-4-2022 1:50 PM
Description
This thesis research examines the Grateful Dead and their followers, the Dead Heads, exploring their complex relationships to fame, money, and capitalism with the goal of understanding how a band so defined by its anti-consumerist roots became a highly recognizable and infinitely marketable brand that has carried on into the current century.
Academic Unit
College of Arts and Humanities
Shakedown Street: The Grateful Dead and the Commodification of Hippie Culture
Armstrong Campus, Solms Hall, Room 110, Session 1
This thesis research examines the Grateful Dead and their followers, the Dead Heads, exploring their complex relationships to fame, money, and capitalism with the goal of understanding how a band so defined by its anti-consumerist roots became a highly recognizable and infinitely marketable brand that has carried on into the current century.
Comments
Honors thesis is available: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/honors-theses/725/