Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The complicated politics of counterculture icon Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead were counterculture icons. But according to author Jim Newton, Garcia himself wasn’t particularly political. At least not publicly, or even in ways we might traditionally think.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readJerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead were counterculture icons. But according to author Jim Newton, Garcia himself wasn’t particularly political. At least not publicly, or even in ways we might traditionally think.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Jim Newton
professor of public policy and communications at UCLA, author of “Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening”
The full episode
2 of 3Newsom does a 180 on oil drilling- 13:17Concerned about gas prices, Newsom pivots to supporting more oil drilling
- 24:53The complicated politics of counterculture icon Jerry GarciaYou’re reading this
- 40:49The 130-year saga of the most fabulous cat painting you’ll ever see