The Woodstock festival of 1969, which featured such groups and artists as the Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, is remembered as much for its 'bringing together' of the counter-cultural generation as for the music performed. The event represented a milestone in the use of music as a medium for political expression, while simultaneously acting as a springboard for the more expressly commercial of rock and pop events which were to follow. In the thirty years since the festival took place, Woodstock has become the subject of many books, magazine articles and documentaries which have served to mythologise the event in the public imagination. These different aspects of the Woodstock festival are discussed in this wide ranging book which brings together a number of established and new writers in the fields of sociology, media studies and popular music studies. Each of the five chapters focus on a specific aspect of the Woodstock festival and its continuing significance in relation to the music industry, the rock festival 'tradition', sixties nostalgia and the cultural impact of popular music.
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Writing in 1980 in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, John Morthland described a failed attempt to stage a commemorative event a decade after the first Woodstock festival and confidently asserted that 'if any proof was needed that rock festivals were a thing of the past, surely this was it' (Morthland, 1980, p. 338). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acoustic performers, festival culture, electric music, concert business, free festival, festival site, pop history, motor museum, acoustic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Country Joe, Live Aid, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, Star Spangled, San Francisco, Joan Baez, Michael Lang, Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Daily Mail, Isle of Wight, Lord Montagu, Melody Maker, Acker Bilk, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Michael Wadleigh, New Forest, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Los Angeles, Vietnam War New!
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Writing in 1980 in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, John Morthland described a failed attempt to stage a commemorative event a decade after the first Woodstock festival and confidently asserted that 'if any proof was needed that rock festivals were a thing of the past, surely this was it' (Morthland, 1980, p. 338). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acoustic performers, festival culture, electric music, concert business, free festival, festival site, pop history, motor museum, acoustic music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Country Joe, Live Aid, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, Star Spangled, San Francisco, Joan Baez, Michael Lang, Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Daily Mail, Isle of Wight, Lord Montagu, Melody Maker, Acker Bilk, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Michael Wadleigh, New Forest, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Los Angeles, Vietnam War New!
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- Jimi Hendrix by Longmeadow Press on 6 pages
- Guide to the New Forest (AA / OS leisure guides) on 5 pages
- Woodstock Festival Remembered by Jean Young on 5 pages
- Glastonbury: A Very English Fair by George McKay on 4 pages
- All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music by Tony Palmer in Front Matter, page 54, and page 88
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- Queering the Popular Pitch by Sheila Whiteley in Front Matter
- The Popular Music Studies Reader by Andy Bennett in Front Matter
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