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Concepts We'll Ponder: Identity, Improvisation, and Community in the Phish Experience(For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music)

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Concepts We’ll Ponder: Identity, Improvisation, and Community in the Phish Experience launches the rapidly growing field of Phish Studies by revealing how the band’s music and culture offer meaningful insights that extend beyond concert grounds into broader social, cultural, and political phenomena. Emerging from the inaugural Phish Studies Conference at Oregon State University, its sixteen innovative essays embody an ethos of serious play; the essays adopt creativity, joy, and improvisation as tools for scholarly inquiry. Distinctively interdisciplinary, the collection draws from diverse disciplines including musicology, communications, statistics, and philosophy. By blending academic methods with passionate “phan” encyclopedic knowledge, the authors of this volume challenge traditional hierarchies between fan/scholar, personal/professional, and high/low culture. They explore “phan” identity, decode the complexities of famous jams, examine concerts as healing spaces, analyze show ratings, and more. In their examinations of the “Camden Chalk Dust,” “Colonel Forbin’s Ascent,” and the “Phish Chicks” community, and beyond, these scholars invite readers to treat Phish as an “intellectual playground” and explore the significance of the Phish experience.

Table of Contents:
Forward by Benjy Eisen Acknowledgments Editors’ Introduction Stephanie Jenkins How I’m Forced To Learn: Methodologies Chapter 1: We Are Aphicionados! We Are Vernacular Theorists! A Critical Reconsideration and Anti-Hegemonic Recasting of Phish, Phandon, and Fan Praxis Jnan Blau Chapter 2: Read The Book: Experiencing Philosophy in the Classroom with Phish Stephanie C. Jenkins Companions On This Ride: Phish Fan Community and Identity Chapter 3: I Strive to Convey What You Strive to Condone’: Phish Scene Identity and Understanding America Elizabeth A. Yeager Chapter 4: A Cultural Rhetorical Model of Identity for Dispersed Communities: Case of Jam Band Communities Natalie J. Dollar, Nicholas Dahl, & Alexa Tawzer Chapter 5: Donuts, Dresses and Phish: The Effects of Trademark Law on the Production of Culture Inside and Outside of the Phish Scene Daniel W. Dylan Chapter 6: Phish Fan’s Performance of Resistance, Recuperation, and Reiteration Christina L. Allaback We’re All in This Together: Gender and Accessibility in the Phish Community Chapter 7: Inside this Silent Scene, All Are Free: An Assessment of Accessibility Issues Facing Deaf/Hard of Hearing (HoH) Fans at Phish Concerts Joel Gershon Chapter 8: You Were the Song That My Soul Understood: Personal Connections Through Shared Discourse in Facebook Community, Phish Chicks Denise Goldman Healing The Symptoms Chapter 9: From the Concert to the Couch: Phish and the Therapeutic Alliance Isaac Slone Chapter 10: Community Through the Phellowship: A Support Group of Phans who Choose to Remain Sober John Boatner Shiny Music That Descends From Overhead: The Significance of Musical Structure and Improvisation Chapter 11: On the Persistence of the Groove: Structural Fog and Jouissance in a ‘Split Open and Melt’ Jam Stephen Reale Chapter 12: ’Up the Mountain’: The Compositional Use of the Arpeggiated Augmented Triad in Anastasio’s ‘Colonel Forbin’s Ascent’ Julie Viscardi-Smalley Chapter 13: The Camden ‘Chalk Dust Torture’ as a Model for Understanding Improvisational Aesthetics Jacob A. Cohen Chapter 14: An Ethnographic & Feminist Listen-In: Riffing on Phish Through the Influences of Improvised Music Histories and Collective Practices Dana Reason Do You Have to Count Them?: Setlists and Ratings Chapter 15: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Setlist Structure Analysis Matthew Sottile Chapter 16: “Waiting, Calculating:” Phish Setlists and Fans’ Show Ratings Paul Jakus


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781666955187
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Sub Title: Identity, Improvisation, and Community in the Phish Experience
  • ISBN-10: 1666955183
  • Publisher Date: 27 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
  • Width: 152 mm


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