Introduction : "If my words did glow" : discoursing the Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead scholars caucus : fifteen years of a discourse community
"The sound of thick air" : the Grateful Dead as experimental composers / Eric F. Levy
The Taoist perspective in "Weather report suite" / Melinda Belleville
"In and out of the garden" : sacred and profane in the Grateful Dead phenomenon / Mary Goodenough
Who is Dionysus and why does he keep following me everywhere? / Stanley J. Spector
The Grateful Dead parallax / James A. Tuedio
"Sometimes you get shown the light" : an ethnographer's meditation on boundaries, barriers, and awareness / Natalie J. Dollar
Remembering the Dead : prologue to a memoir / Lans Smith
"Trouble with you is the trouble with me" : authenticity, vitality, and tribute bands in the age of mechanical convergence / Matthew C. Armstrong
Coming out to raise the Dead : the first caucus / Robert G. Weiner
Deadhead word jam : the second caucus
By popular demand : the third caucus / Mary Goodenough
"Raise that flag" : the fourth caucus / Nicholas G. Meriwether
"Got to callin' it home" : the fifth caucus / Nicholas G. Meriwether
"With thought jewels polished and gleaming" : the sixth caucus / Nicholas G. Meriwether
"Spinning that curious sense of our own" : the seventh caucus / Nicholas G. Meriwether
"Shall we go?" : the eighth caucus / Christian Crumlish
"Never had such a good time" : the ninth caucus / Nicholas G. Meriwether
"When the secrets all are told" : the tenth caucus
"Seeking all that's still unsung" : the eleventh caucus
"More than words can tell" : the twelfth caucus
"Can't talk to you without talking to me" : the thirteenth caucus
"The secret of this tie that binds" : the fourteenth caucus
"All the years combine" : the fifteenth caucus.