Dead Head Sociology
Friday, April 10 2009
by Frank Stasio and Lindsay Thomas
Pull out your tie-dyed T-shirts and pitch a tent. The Grateful Dead is kicking off its first tour in five years in Greensboro. Sociologist Rebecca Adams will be in the sea of Deadheads flocking to the Triad. Adams is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro who has devoted the last 20 years of her career to studying the country's grooviest population. Today, Deadheads have sealed their significance in popular culture, but Adams' course of research was met with much resistence when she began writing about the far-out fans back in the late 1980s. She joins host Frank Stasio to talk about the evolution of The Grateful Dead and the evolution of sociological thought surrounding the band.
