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The band ended up with what essentially amounted to an inadvertent audio archive, which was produced with little eye on the future, but rather for the sound crew and the band itself to listen back, critique their performances, and improve their playing. Since 1995, when the Grateful Dead ceased being a performing entity, they have earned a significant portion of their revenues as an organization (Grateful Dead Productions), and perhaps more importantly, have kept their legacy alive by producing commercial CD releases drawn from these audio recordings. Having sold several million archival recordings on CD since 1996, the Grateful Dead continue to manage their audiovisual archive very closely in order to ensure that these CD releases continue for decades to come. Additionally, the archive has been used as the official licensor of all Grateful Dead music to media outlets and film producers, as the band not only owns their performance rights, but the master recordings as well. This paper will focus on how a major rock band has preserved and made accessible a collection of 3,000 video tapes, 250,000 feet of 16mm film, and more than 15,000 audio tapes, producing scores of CD and DVD releases to keep its legacy alive and ensure that there will always be widespread access to the band’s music through these commercial releases. However, another topic to be discussed in depth is the band’s place in American popular culture and how this archive is used to support the unique place the band holds in the history of American music since 1965. As the Grateful Dead have not performed in over 14 years, the importance of the band’s audiovisual archive and its accessibility has grown every year since then, and is now the primary means by which the band’s legacy is kept alive."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}}],"summary":{"en":["Between 1965 and 1995, the San Francisco-based rock band the Grateful Dead performed over 2,400 concerts. At most of these concerts they made audio recordings in virtually every audio format from 1965 to 1995. The band ended up with what essentially amounted to an inadvertent audio archive, which was produced with little eye on the future, but rather for the sound crew and the band itself to listen back, critique their performances, and improve their playing. Since 1995, when the Grateful Dead ceased being a performing entity, they have earned a significant portion of their revenues as an organization (Grateful Dead Productions), and perhaps more importantly, have kept their legacy alive by producing commercial CD releases drawn from these audio recordings. Having sold several million archival recordings on CD since 1996, the Grateful Dead continue to manage their audiovisual archive very closely in order to ensure that these CD releases continue for decades to come. Additionally, the archive has been used as the official licensor of all Grateful Dead music to media outlets and film producers, as the band not only owns their performance rights, but the master recordings as well. This paper will focus on how a major rock band has preserved and made accessible a collection of 3,000 video tapes, 250,000 feet of 16mm film, and more than 15,000 audio tapes, producing scores of CD and DVD releases to keep its legacy alive and ensure that there will always be widespread access to the band’s music through these commercial releases. However, another topic to be discussed in depth is the band’s place in American popular culture and how this archive is used to support the unique place the band holds in the history of American music since 1965. As the Grateful Dead have not performed in over 14 years, the importance of the band’s audiovisual archive and its accessibility has grown every year since then, and is now the primary means by which the band’s legacy is kept alive."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128084/file/239767","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2010_Lemieux_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1488.04713,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128084/file/239767/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128084/file/239767/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/239/767/original/ARSC_conf_2010_Lemieux_audio.mp3?1714146565","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1488.04713,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2670/collection_resources/128084/file/239767","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}