The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads

Libraries, musicologists, and Deadheads alike will want a copy of this comprehensive annotated bibliography that contains most of what has been written over the past 30 years about this legendary American musical institution and its fans, the Deadheads. The approximately 4,000 annotations serve as a chronolgical history, an aid to researchers, and a guide for fans and collectors. The Grateful Dead appeared on the San Francisco music scene in 1965, and over the course of their career inspired a wide array of writing. This work includes the entire spectrum.

The work includes every book published about the band, every article that appeared in a major magazine or journal, chapters and entries in books, and articles from "The San Francisco Chronicle" and "The San Francisco Examiner" newspapers. Several magazines in their entirety were devoted (and remain devoted) to following the band, and this bibliography chronicles the material that appeared in those fan magazines. In addition to author, subject, and title indexes, an index to artists and photographers is included, since the Grateful Dead inspired a large body of artistic and photographic work.

DAVID G. DODD is Branch Manager of the Civic Center Library of the Marin County Free Library in San Rafael, California. He saw his first Grateful Dead concert in 1976. He is currently working onThe Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, which can be viewed on the World Wide Web.

ROBERT G. WEINER is a Reference Librarian at the Mahon Library, Lubbock, Texas. He has published articles and reviews on popular culture, some of which have appeared inPopular Music and Society, the Internet group H-PCAAA, Public & Access Services Quarterly,ERIC, the West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, and the East Texas Historical Journal. He recently published an article entitled Atomic Music in the anthology,On the Culture of the American South.