The Life and Mind of Jerry Garcia in Conjunction with Howard Gardners Model of Creativity :: Howard Gardner Jerry Garcia Paperes

The Life and Mind of Jerry Garcia in Conjunction with Howard Gardners Model of CreativityWe always though of the Grateful Dead as being the engine that was driving the spaceship that we were traveling on.-Ken Babbs, a former Merry PranksterDaddy is sleeping. Dont touch the guitars. -Heather GarciaIn his Creating Minds, Howard Gardner states the purpose of his book as an examination of the ...often peculiar intellectual capacities, personality configurations, social arrangements, and creative agendas, struggles, and accomplishments (6). In this paper I will examine the animation and creativity of John Jerome Garcia from the framework and theories provided by Gardner, from the perspective of aptness in the musical intelligence.One of the most significant events of Jerry Garcias childhood occurred when he was four and blood brother Clifford, Tiff, was eight. Wed been given a chore to do...hed hold the wood and Id chop it...he was messing around and I was just constantly chopping. Jerr y lost about half of his right inner circle finger. This was the first of many losses Jerry experienced that would affect his life and musical style.The Early YearsBorn in San Francisco, Jerry Garcia was the son of a registered nurse and an immigrant vauntingly bandleader. When Garcias band broke up, he went into the bar business. It was right after the Depression. It was a job he had to take to survive. Back then, you had to take any damn thing. go on the pattern of loss, Garcia drowned when Jerry was five. It is notable that he grew up with a single parent, an environment that characterizes many of todays childrens formative experiences. When his father died, his decided to continue the bar business. As a result of this, what was left of the Garcia family moved around the San Francisco area quite frequently during the childrens formative years. All the family members the children knew lived within a five-block radius. This enabled them to have an even bigger lick of the city, as they would often ride the train around town to visit relatives. ProdigiousnessOne of the issues in Gardners model is the child prodigy. We see this reflected best in Picasso, slight so in Einstein. Jerry was quite the opposite. His musical career was characterized by very, very hard work. As former wife Sara recalled, Hed be in a heavy(a) mood if he couldnt practice for several hours a day (32). Hed get into an absolute funk if he couldnt get something absolutely right (47).