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.