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Heads : a biography of psychedelic America

Title
Heads : a biography of psychedelic America / Jesse Jarnow.
Author
Jarnow, Jesse
Publication
  • Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
xi, 468 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Tells the history of psychedelic drug counterculture that has become a part of the mainstream American psyche, beginning in the 1950s when the drugs were a promising psychological treatment, through their hippie heyday and to modern day usage. --Publisher's description.
Subject
  • Grateful Dead (Musical group)
  • Deadheads (Music fans) > United States
  • Rock music > Social aspects > United States
  • Hallucinogenic drugs > History > United States > 20th century
  • Counterculture > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 400-416) and index.
Contents
Humbead's revised map of the world -- Dead freaks unite -- Beyond the Whole Earth -- Shakedown Street -- The burning shore -- This everlasting spoof -- Day of the Dead -- Wetlands Preserve -- Through the looking glass -- The tour from Hell -- Festival season -- How Jerry got hip (again).
ISBN
  • 9780306822551
  • 0306822555
  • 9780306822568
  • 0306822563
LCCN
  • 2015036408
  • 99973461452
OCLC
  • ocn922034670
  • 922034670
  • SCSB-14359167
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries