Stanford University Opens Class About The Grateful Dead, Want To Register?

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JAKARTA - Stanford University announced that it will offer online courses on music and culture of The Grateful Dead.

Titled Psychedelia and Groove: The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead, this six-week online course will consist of six 50-minute sessions divided into three parts.

According to classroom details through Stanford University's official website, the first part will focus on the perspective of the band's evolutionary history, followed by a diverse and growing music catalog analysis of The Grateful Dead. This course will end with the impact of band culture on society, including its relation to art, literature, and social change, as well as its unique fan culture and the Deadhead phenomenon.

The course will be taught by journalist and musician David Gans, national syndicated radio producer and host Grateful Dead Hour and host Tales From The Golden Road, a two-hour talk show on the Grateful Dead Channel SiriusXM.

Gans is also one of the authors of This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead.

"Grateful Dead music is collaborative and improvised. Therefore, I have invited guest speakers to join me in at least five classes. I have been a verbal historian and radio interviewer for more than 40 years; I have learned that conversations are a much more effective way of presentation than lectures," Gans wrote for the course.

The course will start on January 22 at a cost of 405 US dollars.