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Heads : A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow (2016, Hardcover)
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Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America by Jesse Jarnow. Published by Da Capo Press, in .2016. Scarce and collectible. This is the First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Near Fine condition hardcover, Very Good bright and crisp dust covers, clean flat pages, square spine, clean flat pages, no marks or writing. I pride myself on carefully packing books for mailing. Read my reviews. First I wrap them in kraft paper, then bubble wrap, before the book goes into a padded mailer. Multiple-book-orders receive a refund for unused postage charges. All photos are the actual book I'm offering for sale; no stock pics from me. No artificial-intelligence-generated copy, either. This is all me, a collector. If you have questions or would like to see additional photos, please ask.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100306822555
ISBN-139780306822551
eBay Product ID (ePID)209722932
Product Key Features
Book TitleHeads : a Biography of Psychedelic America
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, Popular Culture
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorJesse Jarnow
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight26.6 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPraise for Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America Will Hermes, author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever "A lucid, illuminating, profound, and often hilarious history of how psychedelics have shaped this great nation--not just music (though the Dead loom large), but across the entire cultural-spiritual landscape. As all goes to hell in a bucket, there are lessons here about what gives our lives meaning, and the roads forward." Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth/Lee Ranaldo & The Dust "Herein Jesse Jarnow charts previously unwrit histories of acid culture, outlining some of the various trade routes to our contemporary illumination. With Grateful Dead as vehicle for Trips Festival dissemination via ecstatic concert music and tour-nomadism, psychedelics opened the doors and minds that led to our time. This book offers a document of how Heads-culture spread across Humbead's Revised Map of the World. It is not advisable to drive or operate heavy machinery while reading this book.", "If you are a fan of books dealing with the history of salt, timber or something more exotic like sex, you will delight in Heads, a book about psychedelics...[A] well-documented spiraling history of how these drugs transformed our present culture."-- Bookcase TV, 10/26/16, "[Jarnow] is our generation's foremost Grateful Dead chronicler, and something of a cultural ambassador to the punks and indie kids who might not otherwise pay the band any mind." -- Spin, "Music, history and psychopharmacology blend together in Heads...Jarnow describes in colorful and scrupulously researched detail how psychedelic music fused with actual psychedelics to create a ceaselessly regenerating 'hip economy' that persists to this day...It's a head trip and then some." -- Rolling Stone, "10 Best Music Books of 2016", "A brilliant study of the transformative impact of LSD on a half-century of U.S. art, music, movies, spirituality and technology."-- Uncut, "Book of the Year," December 2016
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal782.42166092/2
SynopsisHeads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging graffiti writers of Central Park, the Dead-loving AI scientists of Stanford, utopian Whole Earth homesteaders, black market chemists, government-wanted Anonymous hackers, rogue explorers, East Village bluegrass pickers, spiritual seekers, Internet pioneers, entrepreneurs, pranksters, pioneering DJs, and a nation of Deadheads. WFMU DJ and veteran music writer Jesse Jarnow draws on extensive new firsthand accounts from many never-before-interviewed subjects and a wealth of deep archival research to create a comic-book-colored and panoramic American landscape, taking readers for a guided tour of the hippie highway filled with lit-up explorers, peak trips, big busts, and scenic vistas, from Vermont to the Pacific Northwest, from the old world head capitals of San Francisco and New York to the geodesic dome-dotted valleys of Colorado and New Mexico. And with the psychedelic research moving into the mainstream for the first time in decades, Heads also recounts the story of the quiet entheogenic revolution that for years has been brewing resiliently in the Dead's Technicolor shadow. Featuring over four dozen images, many never before seen-including pop artist Keith Haring's first publicly sold work- Heads weaves one of the 20th and 21st centuries' most misunderstood subcultures into the fabric of the nation's history. Written for anyone who wondered what happened to the heads after the Acid Tests, through the '70s, during the Drug War, and on to the psychedelic present, Heads collects the essential history of how LSD, Deadheads, tie-dye, and the occasional bad trip have become familiar features of the American experience.
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- 04 Jul, 2016
Behind the scenes in the 60's and 70's
An interesting book if you lived through that period, and wondered what was going on behind the scenes. The author's use of present tense throughout is unusual, but you get used to it easily. Sometimes maybe too much detail, but you can always skim those parts. I've not yet finished the book; that's why I bought it instead of borrowing it from the library, so that I could read a little bit at a time. Recommended for armchair time travelers.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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