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The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography.
By David G. Dodd and Robert G. Weiner. Music Reference Collection, no. 60. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1997. 423p. acid free, $75 (ISBN 0-313-30141-7; ISSN 07367740).
Among Deadheads, avid fans of the popular musical group the Grateful Dead, are many collectors of tapes recorded at Grateful Dead concerts. These collectors often keep well-organized and annotated lists of the tapes in their collection and exchange them among other fans who seek to expand their collections of recordings and their knowledge of the realm of tapes available.
In this same vein, librarians and popular culture scholars Dodd and Weiner have compiled an annotated bibliography with over 2,800 references to printed works about the Grateful Dead and by its members. The first 2,000 entries cite books, chapters in books, theses, and dissertations. For monographs primarily...