“If A Man Does Not Keep Pace With His Companions, Perhaps It Is Because He Hears

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Term Paper Title	“If A Man Does Not Keep Pace With His Companions, Perhaps It Is Because He Hears
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”            - Henry David Thoreau

     In 1967, Timothy Leary persuaded America’s youth to “tune in, turn on,
and drop out.”  Thousands of young adults literally heard the “far away music”
and, to the dismay of their parents, marched away.  America’s children grew
their hair, burned their bras and draft cards and permanently changed their
wardrobes.  To their delight, these individual cultural refugees discovered they
were not alone.  These countercultural groups coalesced, establishing norms
and values so attractive, flexible and adaptive that finally, society could not
deny them a place in the American landscape.  Because Deadheads typify how
mainstream American society generates groups of people with divergent core
ideals, ultimately making room for them, the Deadhead phenomenon can be
shown to illustrate counterculture as well as subculture, and even a latter-day
assimilation into mainstream American society.
     Deadheads form a group with an identifiable onset and about which
there is substantial literature.  Also, A Deadhead, according to the authors of
Skeleton Key:  A Dictionary for Deadheads, is “someone who loves -- and draws
meaning from -- the music of the Grateful Dead and the experience of Dead
shows, and builds community with others who feel the same way” (Shenk 60).
     To elaborate on this in more objective terms, research shows the top
four characteristic influences on the life of Deadheads are (in order):  The
Dead, Friends, Love, and Family.  In this same survey, below the mean are:
Money, Work, and Sex, (Scott 343).  From 1965 to 1995 the rock group, The
Grateful Dead, has attracted a group of people known as Deadheads who follow
the band everywhere they go.  Large numbers of them live in their vans and
cars and travel from show to show, even without tickets, or any means to get
them.  They make their money in the parking lot (outside the shows), selling
self-made tie-dies, beaded necklaces and bracelets, food and beverages, and
other random items.  They have their own little portable community which,
from within, has become peopled with doctors and teachers.
     To emphasize that Deadheads as a group are separate from mainstream
American society, we need only to review the profiles documented in the
literature:  “46% of Deadheads are single, 28% married, and only 5%(!)
d...

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