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Woodstock: The Oral History [Paperback]

Joel Makower
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Book Description

June 1, 1989
All the dreams, optimism, follies and eccentricities of the 1920s counter-culture were exemplified at the legendary music festival which became a byword for a generation. This book marks the 20th anniversary of the event which included performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan. The insiders, organizers and participants in this event recall what really happened, backstage panics, unexpected triumphs and moving reflections of a lost age.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The landmark 1969: the first year of the Nixon presidency; the year in which the U.S. death toll in Vietnam exceeded that of the Korean War; the year of Chappaquidick--and the year of Woodstock, the three-day music festival that Margaret Mead reportedly called "the best-planned and most significant gathering of young people in the history of the world." Makower, a freelance journalist, attempts the formidable task of interpreting Woodstock by setting it squarely within its historical context and interviewing scores of participants, among them musicians, neighbors (both the hostile and the amicable) and employees at the food concessions . From the first tentative conversations between its four producers (Michael Lang, JoelRosenman, John Roberts and Artie Kornfeld) to the lingering aftermath--the grounds, for a weekend the third-largest city in New York, were afterward declared a disaster area--from the interminable security and lavatory arrangements to the "freak-out" tents and the lawsuits from locals, Woodstock comes alive here, even if the music itself seems almost incidental to the backstage dramas. Photos. QPBC selection; author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Letting over 100 attendees and others who made it happen just tell it like it was, Makower has compiled a massive literary birthday cake for Woodstock's 20th anniversary. Far wider in scope than Jack Curry's Woodstock: The Summer of Our Lives ( LJ 3/15/89), this oral history offers page after page of commentary from a cross-section of those connected with it. After writing two pages of preface, Makower never again intervenes; and while one can appreciate his aim, the massiveness of the project called for more direction: keeping track of the huge number of personalities is finally burdensome. Ultimately, this well-illustrated compilation may be of greatest use as a reference tome for 1960s scholars. Small libraries can get by with just the Curry book. More comprehensive collections will want Makower's as well because of its research value.
- David M. Turkalo, Social Law Lib . , Boston
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 361 pages
  • Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (June 1, 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385247176
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385247177
  • Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,886,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"For more than 20 years, Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. As a writer, speaker, and strategist on corporate environmental practices, clean technology, and green marketing, he has helped a wide range of companies align environmental responsibility with business success.

His latest book, ""Strategies for the Green Economy,"" was recently published by McGraw-Hill.

Joel is a talented communicator who can cut through the hype and haze to provide clarity and perspective on a range of business environmental issues. He brings to his writing, speeches, and clients a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing mainstream companies as they try to address environmental issues in a way that drives bottom-line performance and topline growth.

His balanced, realistic, and credible approach to sustainable business and clean technology has helped senior managers in a variety of companies and sectors create strategic roadmaps, make the business case, articulate a vision internally, form meaningful partnerships, and communicate with a broad range of stakeholders.

The Associated Press has called him ""The guru of green business practices.""

Joel is co-founder and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc., which produces GreenBiz.com and its sister sites, ClimateBiz.com, GreenerBuildings.com, and GreenerComputing.com. He also serves as a senior strategist at GreenOrder, a sustainability consultancy, as well as co-founder and principal of Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm focusing on building markets for clean energy technologies. From 1991 to 2005, Joel was editor and publisher of The Green Business Letter, an award-winning monthly newsletter he founded on corporate environmental strategy. In 2005, he was appointed a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Joel has helped a wide range of companies improve their environmental strategy and communications -- including Clifbar, Gap, Hewlett Packard, Levi Strauss, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and Stonyfield Farm -- as well as advising more than a dozen early-stage companies focusing on environmentally sustainable products and services.

A former nationally syndicated columnist, Joel is author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including ""Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to Work for Your Business and the World,"" about the profit and potential of socially responsible business practices; ""The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business,"" on how companies are responding to environmental challenges in positive and profitable ways, and ""The Green Consumer,"" a best-selling guide to the environmental marketplace.

In addition, he is author of an oral history of the Woodstock music festival, published in 1989, which Rolling Stone called ""the definitive history of the mega-event.""

Joel has been a featured commentator on environmental topics for public radio's ""Marketplace"" and appears frequently in both broadcast and print media. He serves as a board member or adviser to a range of for-profit and nonprofit organizations and lectures regularly to companies, industry groups, and business schools around the world."

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5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable history told by the people who lived it August 16, 2003
Format:Hardcover
I have read this book over and over, and it never fails to fascinate me. Anyone who wishes they were in Bethel, NY on August 15th, 1969 should buy this book. It's filled with facts that I've never heard anywhere else, and most importantly, it is told by the people who were there: everyone from promoters and artists to festival-goers and burger-flippers. Fans of the movie and the music should invest in this book- it's a great read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Woodstock Revisited after 40 years January 26, 2009
Format:Paperback
The music doesn't start until page 187, almost halfway through the book... Published 20 years ago with a text from interviews 20 years after the festival closed, those interviewed had a chance to talk about their personal experiences with the hindsight of the 70's and most of the 80's behind them.

Now that we are approaching the 40th anniversary, this book is a source for remembering how fresh and new the concept was and how the People were motivated to make it work, because we thought the music was that important.

'Build it and they will play' could have been the mission statement for the organizers, who had to invent their roles and miraculously provide resources in order to make it happen.

Let's hope that the publishers,will recognize the opprotunity of the anniversary and reprint this marvelous retelling of a sentinel event in the cultural and politcal history of the 60's, 70's and beyond.
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4.0 out of 5 stars woodstock August 26, 2003
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Format:Hardcover
I think this book was great i enjoyed it it covered a lot of things about woodstock performances, people. i also think that if i were to get a wqoodstock book to get Information about it i would choose this book
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