Deadheads: An American Subculture

1990 documentary by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, featuring sociologist Rebecca Adams, PhD, who examines Deadhead subculture through a theoretical framework based on the ideas of social theorist Georg Simmel. Aired on PBS in the early 90s.

Cast

Rebecca Adams

as Herself

Jerry Garcia

as Himself

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