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Jay Karl Stevens (November 11, 1953 – February 19, 2025) [ 1 ] was a freelance writer and social historian. [ 2 ] Stevens was born and raised into a family of farmers in Sprin...

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Jay Karl Stevens (November 11, 1953 – February 19, 2025)[1] was a freelance writer and social historian.[2] Stevens was born and raised into a family of farmers in Springfield, Vermont. He attended school there as a child and then Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, going on to the University of Vermont after graduation.[1]

He is the author of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987), which has been described as a "classic" by historian David Farber[3] and "the quintessential work on the history of LSD in America" by Kristin Robinson.[4] Historian of science and medicine Benjamin Breen also recommends the book for those wishing to learn more about the history of LSD.[5]

Stevens is also the co-author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman.[6] He founded Applied Orphics, a digital marketing and distribution company, and Rap Lab, a program bringing at-risk teenagers and professional musicians and poets together.[7][8] Prior to his death, he was living at his family farm in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, where he produced maple syrup.[1]

Selected works

Books
  • Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987) ISBN 9780871130761
  • Drumming at the Edge of Magic (with Mickey Hart & Fredric Lieberman) (1990) ISBN 9780062503725
  • Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm (with Mickey Hart & Fredric Lieberman) (1991) ISBN 9780062504142
  • The Sixties edited by Peter Stine, Jay Stevens contributor. Wayne State University Press (January 1, 1996) ISBN 0814325580, ISBN 978-0814325582
Discography
  • Dance House by Jay Stevens and Derek Young (2012)
  • Orphic Revival by Jay Karl Stevens and The Raven (2013)
Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jay Karl Stevens" . Obituario. Valley News , Lebanon, New Hampshire. 13 de marzo de 2025. Consultado el 17 de marzo de 2025.
  2. ↑ Cohen, Richard (1998). "Stevens, Jay (Karl) 195(?)–" . En Peacock, Scot; Rooney, Terrie M. (eds.). Contemporary Authors . 166. Gale. pp. 378-379. ISBN 9780787626679OCLC 40144873​​ 
  3. ↑ Farber, David (Primavera de 2006). "No encuentro mi camino: Estados Unidos en la Gran Era de la Piedra, 1945-2000." The Historian . 68 (1): 169.
  4. ↑ Robinson, Kristin (julio de 1988). "Asaltando el cielo: LSD y el sueño americano". Humanist . 48 (4): 40.
    • Strassman, Rick J. (marzo de 1989). "Sueños ácidos: la CIA, el LSD y la rebelión de los sesenta; Asaltando el cielo: el LSD y el sueño americano" . The American Journal of Psychiatry . American Psychiatric Association. 146 (3): 395–396.
  5. ↑ Breen, Benjamin (2024). Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science . Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781538722374OCLC 1378372597. Cita: "Nota sobre las fuentes... Para más información sobre la historia del LSD en particular, véanse Martin A. Lee y Bruce Shlain, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD ( Nueva York: Grove Press, 1992); y Jay Stevens, Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (Nueva York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987)." 
  6. ↑ Dunham, Elisabeth (14 de noviembre de 1990). "El baterista regresa a sus raíces" . Lawrence Journal-World . Associated Press. págs. 1-2 . 
  7. ↑ Música rap utilizada en un programa de desvío judicial por Jane Lindholm y Matt Bushlow para Vermont Public Radio
  8. ↑ "Vídeo sobre Rap Lab y clip de audio en Vermont Life" . Archivado del original el 5 de mayo de 2012. Consultado el 6 de enero de 2014 .

Lecturas adicionales

  • Stevens, Jay (1991)[1987]. «Introducción». En Whitmer, Peter O., y Van Wyngarden, Bruce. Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America . Citadel Press. ISBN 9780806512228OCLC 24781258​​ 
  • Vídeo sobre Rap Lab y clip de audio en Vermont Life