Music and the Divine The Acid Tests and their Role in the Grateful Dead’s Foundation Story

摘要: In this article I discuss the way in which Acid Tests, multimedia parties organized by author Ken Kesey 1965 and 1966, were interpreted Grateful Dead, who played at Tests one of most successful bands to emerge from 1960s psychedelic scene rock. examining construction meaning significance that band members created, we see a group many ways resembles new religious movement struggling create, make sense of, free itself its foundation story—a struggle repeated groups before since.