Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography

Woodstock
Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
JEFFREY N. GATTEN
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Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 3
Culture & Society 9
Books 9
Chapters 21
Articles 35
Proceedings 52
Websites 52
Videos 53
History 55
Books 55
Chapters 72
Articles 85
Websites 89
Transcriptions 92
Videos 93
Biography 95
Books 95
Chapters 110
Music 113
Books 113
Chapters 116
Articles 120
Videos 126
Recordings 127
Film 129
Books 129
Chapters 134
Articles 139
Websites 144
Videos 145
Arts & Literature 147

Books 147
Chapters 152
Articles 153
Websites 157
Authors, Editors and Directors Index 159

Subject Index 165
Preface
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large
when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation
and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological,
political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural
touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives or seeking clarity.
Scholarship is defined here as any work providing a serious treatment
of the subject with the intent to inform, enlighten, educate, or add to a
body of knowledge. Readers will find most items included are primarily
interpretive and analytical, rather than merely descriptive. This, then,
excludes most news publications tending to report on current events
without attempting in-depth analysis (e.g., Time, Newsweek, People),
popular reading materials (e.g., Rolling Stone), and reviews. Dissertations
have been excluded due to being unpublished works. However, in an
attempt to be more inclusive than exclusive, notable exceptions have
been made in almost every genre. The Woodstock legacy continues and
has a direct lineage manifested through anniversary events: Woodstock
’79, Woodstock ’89, Woodstock ’94, and Woodstock ’99. Therefore,
selected scholarship on these happenings can be found within this work.
Chapters are organized into subject disciplines. Books, book chapters,
journal articles, proceedings, videos, websites, transcriptions, and
sound recordings are included when appropriate. Each entry contains
bibliographic information applicable to the physical/digital format.
Annotations are written to provide clear descriptive explanations of
content. Each entry is numbered sequentially and identified in the
authors/editors/directors and subject indexes by the entry number. The
detailed indexes are designed to serve as the primary locating tools for
this publication.
2 Woodstock Scholarship
Woodstock scholarship does not stand alone as field of study, but

it is at the cross-roads of a number of disciplines — music, history,
cultural studies, sociology, arts and literature, media studies, politics
and economics. This interdisciplinary annotated bibliography
should facilitate research and study by students, scholars, teachers,
and librarians in all these areas, as well as anyone seeking a deeper
understanding of both the Woodstock Music and Art Fair phenomenon
and the confluence of music, commerce and politics.
Bibliographies are works in progress which need constant updating
as new resources become available. Therefore, in parallel with this
edition is issued a free, socially enhanced version of Woodstock
Scholarship. This socially editable version of the work is available on
Wikiversity, a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to educational
resources. You are encouraged to help develop this collaborative edition
by adding new entries and creating links to existing resources. You can
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isbn/9781783742882#resources
I want to acknowledge and thank the libraries at California Institute
of the Arts (CalArts) and Loyola Marymount University for providing
access to many of these resources and for their overall efforts and
support. This book is dedicated to Raida Gatten for her unwavering
encouragement of anything and everything I undertake.
Introduction
The importance of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair cannot be

overstated. Three days of music on a New York farm in August 1969
generated an ethos and a mythology (Denisoff, 1986); but was it merely
a media contrivance? Depends upon who is asked. The importance is
self-evident; the reason is elusive.
Throughout the 1960s, popular music became increasingly reflective
and suggestive of the rising political and social consciousness of the
youth culture. Examples can be seen in the development of the protest
song genre within the folk music boom of the early Sixties and the
marriage of lifestyle to music first reflected by The Beatles with fashion,
followed by psychedelic music with the emerging drug culture.
Woodstock was where these themes coalesced, thus becoming the
“defining and last great moment of the 1960s” (Bennett, 2004). However,
Woodstock also represented, in the same instance, an abundant amount
of “experiences and ideas and moments” (Street, 2012). Thus, when
exploring the complicated accounts and numerous facets of America
during the turbulent Sixties one discovers scholarship on the key
subjects, such as the Vietnam War or the Civil Rights Movement, often
considering and debating the importance, relevance, and epic nature
of Woodstock. Multiple narratives emerge: a radical engagement of the
hippie movement, an overt commercial exploitation of youth culture, a
political statement (Street, 2012).
Jimi Hendrix’s performance provides just one example of
the complexities encountered when trying to reach a definitive
understanding of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. A lot of ink
has been used to analyze Hendrix’s performance, a lot of ink. His
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rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the event mattered to others

in significant ways―artistically, socially, and politically.1 Hendrix
delivered one of the most important rock performance in the history
of popular culture (Diltz, 2006). Floyd (1995) describes his execution
style coming from the “practice and proclivities of numerous ancient
and modern African and African-American music makers.” Murray
(1989) offers Hendrix’s recital as “a compelling musical allegory of a
nation tearing itself apart.” Clarke (2005) provides a second-by-second
breakdown of the performance, describing musical notes and their
rendering throughout the performance, claiming nationalism and
counterculture are both “simultaneously and antagonistically specified
in the sounds of the performance.” Others attempt to insert intent into
the act which was “informed by a Zeitgeist and part of a larger critique
of American involvement in the Vietnam War” (Fast and Pegley, 2012).
When asked directly why he chose to perform “The Star Spangled
Banner” at Woodstock, Hendrix himself responded only with, “Oh,
because we’re all Americans. We’re all Americans, aren’t we? It was
written and played in a very beautiful way, what they call a beautiful
state. Nice, inspiring, your heart throbs, and you say, ‘Great. I’m
American.’ But nowadays when we play it, we don’t play it to take away
all this greatness that America is supposed to have. We play it the way
the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, isn’t it?” (Steven,
2010). This seems to fall short of being a “stunning political critique”
(Waksman, 2011) or moreover a dismantling of “the central ideas and
mythologies of the United States” (Bass, 2002).
When it comes to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, perception
is everything. Popular music is created and managed by the music
industry and acquires meaning through consumption (Street, 1986).
Woodstock is often viewed cynically as just another manifestation
of commercialism. Yet, to the more radical members of the 1960s
counterculture, it was viewed as the beginning of a utopian political
youth movement that, ultimately, was short-lived (Anderson, 1995).
Woodstock may have provided a visualization of a primitive tribal
bonding lifestyle, but the event did not, in fact, signal a cultural paradigm
shift in any direction (Fischer, 2006). But how close did such a shift come
1 A recording of the performance is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

f=TKAwPA14Ni4
Introduction 5
to being realized? If the festival had continued indefinitely, would a

social order similar to contemporary society have established itself with
capitalistic mechanisms, policing rules, and corrupt citizens (Howard,
1980)? While attending the Woodstock concert likely conveyed one was
opposed to the Vietnam War, favored the legalization of marijuana, and
supported the Civil Rights Movement, the expression did not develop
into a permanent movement because there was a lack of leaders willing
to establish an ideology and transform the energy of the event into
political action (Rahman, 1996). “Perhaps it is asking too much of such
a heterogeneous set of events to display a great deal of coherence―or,
at least, to display a coherent philosophy of life, of action, or even art.”
(Moore, 2004).
The contexts surrounding the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
paralleled the larger American cultural wars of the 1960s: the difficulties
the festival promoters had in securing a site for the event and their
successful and unsuccessful efforts at fostering positive community
relations to that end; the local political maneuvering used in attempts to
stop the concert; the local and state impact of the festival on elections,
the legal system, and on legislation designed to prevent future large-
scale events unless all issues of health, food, sanitation, crowd control,
and safety were addressed; how the festival was viewed at the time in
moral terms, by both proponents and opponents (Helfrich, 2010). Each
instance a case study in the youth movement and the pushback from the
establishment, liberalism versus conservativism, and socialism versus
capitalism.
Historical texts consider Woodstock as a series of discreet events: the
story of how Joel Rosenmann, John Roberts, Artie Kornfeld, and Michael
Lang (the four promoters of the festival) came to form Woodstock
Ventures; securing a site which eventually leads to a meeting with
farmer/businessman Max Yasgur; managing the event as a series of
last minute activities and the consequences regarding traffic control,
food, and security arrangements; surviving the weather; facing post-
event financial issues and the eventual success of the motion picture
Woodstock (Brant, 2008). Chronicled are rich personal accounts from
individuals who attended, performed, or worked the festival, offering
unique and insightful perspectives on the phenomenon. Typically,
treatises conclude with a discussion of the impact on the music
industry, performers, and subsequent music festivals. Often included

are appended discussions devoted to Woodstock ’79, Woodstock ’89,
Woodstock ’94, and Woodstock ’99. Other texts place Woodstock within
the larger context of 1960s America (e.g., the rise of a counterculture)
and the role of music in shaping society during that time period (e.g.,
Bob Dylan, The Beatles). Balanced treatments examine how the festival
influenced an evolving popular music culture both as a commodity and
as an art form (Hillstrom and Hillstrom, 2013).
Interestingly, the iconic nature and cultural importance of the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair was not initially realized, emphasized,
or reported by major news media. One study examined six daily
newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago
Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Cincinnati Enquirer) and three magazines
(Time, Life, and Rolling Stone) through the lens of framing theory to
determine the prominence of the news event, the sources of information
used to compile the coverage, and the extent to which the cultural
aspects were given attention. The findings indicate each publication
used primarily official sources such as law enforcement representatives,
as opposed to consulting actual attendees. As a result, the coverage
focused mainly on the problems created by the festival rather than the
broader social implications and overarching significances (Sheehy,
2012). Initial postmortem analysis focused on then contemporary youth
as a positive social force evidenced by the relative peacefulness of the
festival or as the noble savage (Denisoff, 1986).
Ultimately, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is a meaningful event,
if nothing more, in the personal histories of baby boomers with many
reflecting on the utopian symbolism and few on the music itself (Street,
2012). Personal histories reveal boomers who “seem to date their life
using the festival as a major milestone” (Makower, 2009). The idealism
of a generation is manifested symbolically in the phenomenon of
Woodstock. The strong antiwar movement created a desire among many
young people to reject the representations of the military-industrial
complex and the associated political infrastructure. This led to an
increased interest in “establishing self-sufficient communes” (Perone,
2005). Woodstock was the brief manifestation of this idealism, whether
accurately or not, on such a large-scale as not to be soon forgotten.
Introduction 7
The festival was, and continues to be, experienced by both attendees

and non-attendees due to mass media and the subsequent film and sound
recordings. The impact continues through all the subsequent years, from
serving as a short-handed description of an entire youth movement to
the anniversary concerts and their own attendant issues. This collection
of all relevant research and essays, as well as significant primary and
secondary sources, should serve well students, scholars, researchers,
and news outlets. The contents will facilitate teaching, learning, and
research. Vetted for relevance and accompanied by detailed informative
annotations, this resource directs readers to notable scholarship on an
“intense, extensive, and transitory” gemeinschaft-gesellschaft (Fine, 2012).
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Culture & Society
Books
1. Arrigo, Bruce A., Dragan Milovanovic, and Robert Carl Schehr.
The French Connection in Criminology: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social
Change. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.
Explores the sociology of crime. Describes the systems theory of “self-

similarity” in which “behavior never repeats itself because it does not
precisely follow the same path twice.” Claims attempts to replicate
events never completely duplicate the original because “there is always
a degree of sensitivity to the initial conditions that established the
behavior in the first place.” Offers the attempts to replicate the social
and cultural experiences of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair
through Woodstock ’94 and Woodstock ’99 are examples of problems
associated with iteration and self-similarity. Notes failure occurred in
these instances even after attempts to invoke the same conditions of
location, time of year, etc.
2. Bennett, Andy, ed. Remembering Woodstock. Aldershot, U.K.:

Ashgate, 2004.
Collects nine essays examining the mythological and iconic status of the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair as well as using the event as a starting point
for broader analyses of popular culture, music, and nostalgia. Looks both
forwards and backwards from the festival with sociological, historical,
and musicological perspectives. Provides contexts for appreciating the
event’s “socio-cultural significance.” Examines multiple topics, including
Woodstock’s influence on the music industry and its role regarding the
power of music to influence political activities. Includes an introductory
essay by the editor providing a sense of the various social and political
streams (e.g., Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement) collectively
symbolized in cultural history by the Woodstock festival.
3. Brokaw, Tom. Boom! Voices of the Sixties. New York: Random House,
2007.
Focuses on individuals who helped shape or were shaped by the political

and cultural nature of the 1960s. Comments briefly on the experience of
Tim Russert, Washington D.C. bureau chief for NBC News and host of the
television show Meet the Press, attending the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair with his three buddies and eight cases of beer. Relates a rumor heard
by Russert alleging Johnny Carson was going to make an appearance at
the festival. Includes a timeline of key events from the decade.
4. Casale, Anthony M., and Philip Lerman. Where have all the Flowers
Gone?: The Fall and Rise of the Woodstock Generation. Kansas City, MO:
Andrews and McMeel, 1989.
Explores baby boomers and the idealism of their generation as manifested

symbolically at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Suggests that, after
two decades of having been submerged, the ethos will resurface in the
1990s. Explains how the idealism was born out of the nation’s effort
to accommodate the sudden population growth created by the baby
boomers. Focuses on Abbie Hoffman’s involvement with the planning
process for Woodstock and his activities on and off stage during
the concert. Provides numerous stories of individuals and how they
experienced the festival as both attendees and non-attendees. Delves
into Michael Lang’s involvement, or lack thereof, in several attempts to
re-create Woodstock through tenth and twenty anniversary events.
5. Curry, Jack. Woodstock: The Summer of our Lives. New York:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
Provides a qualitative look at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in

response to what the author claims are decades of writings emphasizing
“sociology, crowd psychology, the weekend’s cultural relevance” and
perhaps irrelevance. Attempts to recapture the personal stories lost to the
many mass movement analyses that typically consider the individuals at
the festival as only particles in a larger social structure. Acknowledges
time has affected the accuracy of some recollections, but characterizes
this as reflecting the looseness and fluidity of the event itself. Emphasizes
the unique emotional impact of the concert on individuals, rather than
serving to document the event for the historical record. Asserts that for
attendees, Woodstock “created memories that still hold a primary place
in their personal autobiographies.” Begins and ends with Penny Stallings,
a Woodstock Ventures employee, and includes numerous individuals in
between, such as Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, and less well
known individuals. Includes some photographs from the festival.
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6. Denisoff, R. Serge. Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisited.

New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986.
Touches on the politicization of rock music and the demise of rock

music culture. Claims the importance of the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair cannot be overstated. Notes the festival “generated an ethos,
a mythology.” Reports the dire conditions at the festival created a
“gemeinschaft or communal aspect of the gathering.” Observes “Woodstock
transcended the most far-fetched dreams of nineteenth-century utopian-
anarchist writers,” but suggests this image was perhaps mostly a media
contrivance. Quotes several publications, such as Rolling Stone magazine
(available at http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/it-was-like-
balling-for-the-first-time-19690920), to illustrate the hyperbole in the
immediate aftermath of the event. Continues by contrasting Woodstock
with the infamous Altamont Speedway concert held several months later,
citing the latter as “the nail in the coffin of the rock culture of the sixties.”
7. Echols, Alice. Shaky Ground: The ‘60s and its Aftershocks. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2002.
Articulates pithily a significant impact of the Woodstock Music and Art

Fair; the discovery by both managers and musicians of the commercial
benefits behind playing one large concert as opposed to many smaller
ones. Notes one result was the beginning of the end to many “hippie
ballrooms” of the era, such as the Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore, and the
Fillmore East.
8. Eliot, Marc. Rockonomics: The Money Behind the Music. New York:
Franklin Watts, 1989.
Provides insight on rock music as a commodity. Discusses the full history

of the production, marketing, and consumption of rock music. Offers the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a symbol of “the selling of progressive
idealism for corporate profit.” Relates how Albert Grossman, manager
of notable popular performing artists, went to the festival to ensure his
clients were paid and discovered John Roberts, one of the promoters,
knew even then the event would not be the financial disaster it appeared.
Notes “although the financial mismanagement of the festival wound up
in several court cases,” the motion picture Woodstock went on to gross
more than $50 million. Suggests the reason the “magic” of the original
Woodstock festival has not been repeated is because of economics,
noting the fees charged by performers increased substantially as a result
of Woodstock.
9. Ennis, Philip H. The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll

in American Popular Music. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press
(University Press of New England), 1992.
Studies the confluence of art, commerce, and politics. Notes the success
of Country Joe and the Fish and other San Francisco bands of the 1960s
when performing at large outdoor rock music festivals. Claims this feat
was due to their experiences at numerous earlier Golden Gate park
concerts. Contends the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a “startling and
energizing affirmation of rock culture.” Offers the festival represented a
break within the youth culture between the political and the apolitical.
States Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of The Star Spangled Banner was implicitly
a collective “assertion of opposition to the war in Vietnam.” Concludes
the Altamont Speedway concert killed any counterculture momentum
emanating from Woodstock.
10. Fine, Gary Alan. Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
Demonstrates the connection between small group cultural and large-

scale civic engagement. Argues the building blocks of society are
born in small group behavior in which meaning is created and beliefs
shared. Offers the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of
a “macrogathering” in which community is “intense, extensive, and
transitory.” Claims the festival was able to create an active identity
recognized beyond the confines of the group. Notes how once a
communal identity is created, it can shape society if “linked to causes
and beliefs.” Suggests Woodstock and other rock music festivals, such
as Burning Man, represent groups with a desire to “control their own
spaces” with the ability to establish “authority to set the rules for action
in the face of external control.” Acknowledges in these instances “identity
is salient within the framework of the gathering, but its impact swiftly
dissipates.” States the challenge rests with keeping the identification
created during the event from becoming just a nostalgic latency.
11. Gair, Christopher. The American Counterculture. Edinburgh,

Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Investigates the relationship between the counterculture and American

popular culture. Looks at the appropriation of counterculture ethos
by the film and record industries. Offers an interdisciplinary account
of the economic and social reasons leading to an emergence of the
counterculture. Discusses the motion picture Woodstock more than the
event itself, noting the movie is “constructed to represent a particular
version of events that offers a summary of many of the central tenets
of countercultural identity in the late 1960s, and the selection of

musicians that it includes contributes to the narrative structure, rather
than merely accompanying it.” Claims that the Altamont Speedway
concert is often used to establish “a bipolar opposition to Woodstock”
but this is “reductive and misleading.” Uses scenes from the Woodstock
film to demonstrate the illusion of the counterculture “offering genuine
alternatives to dominant American life-styles.” Devotes text to an
interpretation of Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the festival, concluding
his “emergent racial consciousness exposes tensions at the heart of
countercultural practice.”
12. Goffman, Ken, and Dan Joy. Counterculture through the Ages: From
Abraham to Acid House. New York: Villard, 2004.
Provides a history on the concept and manifestation of countercultures.

Uses in passing the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to highlight the
contradictory values held among the self-proclaimed members of the
1960s youth movement, especially between the commercialism of the
rock music industry and the rank-and-file societal dropouts. Quotes
Andy Warhol’s comment on the audience at Woodstock. Foreword by
Timothy Leary.
13. Grossman, Lloyd. A Social History of Rock Music: From the Greasers
to Glitter Rock. New York: David McKay, 1976.
Invokes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of counterculture

idealism quickly tainted after-the-fact by the commercialization of the
Woodstock “product.”
14. Hamelman, Steven L. But is it Garbage?: On Rock and Trash. Athens,

GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Claims “American culture is trash culture.” Observes trash, both

literal and figurative, as a catalyst for the transformation of musicians,
critics, and consumers. Refers to both the 1969 Woodstock Music and
Art Fair and Woodstock ’99 as examples of producing garbage that is
a by-product of large-scale rock music events. Notes the 1969 festival
displayed a care-free and playful attitude toward the waste produced,
using it to create “peace” messages without regard for its ultimate
destiny. Points to Woodstock ’99 where massive amounts of trash and
unsanitary conditions became newsworthy. Speculates that “perhaps
the deluge of waste complemented the sound of a civilization going into
the dumpster.” States both concerts teach us that garbage produced at
these types of events is “staggering” in its volume and “live rock ‘n’ roll
and trash are symbiotic.”
15. Harrington, Joe S. Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock ‘n’ Roll. New
York: Hal Leonard, 2002.
Asserts rock music culture no longer exists as a socio-political entity.

States the Woodstock Music and Art Fair presented contradictions
for the revolutionary aspects of the 1960s youth movement. Notes the
commercialism behind the staging of the event, the use of “machines
manufactured by General Motors” to bring 500,000 people together, and
the acceptance of food handouts from “the opposing forces” (i.e., the
establishment).
16. Henderson, Simon. Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the

Black Freedom Struggle. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky,
2013. https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813141541.001.0001
Explores the ways in which African-American athletes utilized college

and professional sports during the 1960s to communicate the struggle
for civil rights. Focuses on the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico City where
Tommie Smith and John Carlos protested by raising their fists on the
podium after receiving their Olympic medals. Mentions several uses
of The Star Spangled Banner to invoke controversy and make political
statements. Asserts Jimi Hendrix’s performance of the national anthem at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was “largely regarded as a reflection
of the loss of faith in American ideals and a call for redemption amid the
turmoil of the Vietnam era.”
17. Hoffman, Abbie. Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album. New York:

Vintage Books, 1969.
Provides a first-person account from one of the vanguard leaders of the

1960s counterculture political front. Uses the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair as the cornerstone event in a tour de force conceptualization of the
“Woodstock Nation.” Postulates on the relationship between rock music
and politics. Dedicated to Lenny Bruce.
18. Issitt, Micah L. Hippies: A Guide to an American Subculture. Santa

Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2009.
Attempts to provide an informed view of a hippie, beyond the general

notion of “a cultural rebel who advocates liberalism in both politics and
lifestyle.” Uses occasional mentions of the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair as a cultural reference point. Asserts that the widely repeated belief
that two babies were born at the festival has not been proven. Includes a
timeline, biographical sketches, and an annotated bibliography.
19. Jacobs, Ron. The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather
Underground. London: Verso, 1997. https://libcom.org/files/32709343-
Way-the-Wind-Blew-A-History-Of-The-Weather-Underground.pdf
Notes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair signaled to the rest of the world
just how widespread the counterculture ethos had become, forcing
political attention on this demographic. Includes a list of acronyms
associated with the Weathermen, a chronology of significant events, and
short biographies of key individuals.
20. Johnson, Bruce, and Martin Cloonan. Dark Side of the Tune: Popular
Music and Violence. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
Argues music, a fundamentally sonic phenomenon, has a relationship to

violence. Examines the transformation of this relationship as caused by
the introduction of technology. Offers the “most pervasive function of
music in generating violence appears to be in everyday life” (as opposed
to state-sponsored). Uses the riots at Woodstock ’99 as an example
of a mob seeking revenge for being denied what they perceived as
entitlements. Recounts specific events from the concert, beginning with
the group Limp Bizkit working the crowd into a frenzy and cumulating
through the full-scale rioting. Details the lack of sanitation and water,
excessive use of drug and alcohol, and capitalistic opportunism. Claims
the mythology of the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an
impossible and unreal standard to replicate at Woodstock ’99. Notes
music often offers to emancipate but its failure to do so creates a “point
of angry focus” to “the accumulated force of all those other promises
that consumerism fails to deliver.” Concludes capitalism impinges on
musical performance.
21. Jones, Landon Y. Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom
Generation. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980.
Considers the impact of baby boomers over the decades, starting with
early expectations of them becoming the best educated generation in
history, born in an environment of continuous economic growth. Traces
their influences: first creating a youth-centered culture, then becoming a
political force based on idealism, and finally producing societal concerns
regarding housing, medical care, and Social Security. Describes baby
boomers as a “generational tyranny” because of the exceptional size of
this particular demographic and its resulting impacts, both positive and
negative, on a society that has no choice but to address. While discussion
of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is limited, this book does place
the festival within the context of larger social issues surrounding baby
boomers. Woodstock is characterized as being the cumulating event of

all the major experiences uniquely defining the baby boom generation’s
evolution to that point.
22. Klein, Naomi. No Logo. New York: Picador, 2002.
Articulates the cultural and economic conditions that create oppositional

forces to the corporate takeover of society. Highlights in brief Woodstock
’94 and the associated news media coverage while lamenting the overtly
commercialization of the Woodstock ethos. Notes “the debate revolved
around the sanctity of the past, with no recognition of present-tense
cultural challenges.” Observes news media focused on the significance
of Woodstock ’94 to aging baby boomers instead of on members of the
youth market for which the event was organized. States there was no
exploration of the meaning commodification created for today’s youth.
Offers those attending Woodstock ’94 had their generational identity
prepackaged and marketed long before arriving at the concert.
23. Mercer, Kobena. Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black

Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Invokes very succinctly the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to illustrate
the concept of an “ambiguous appropriation of black expressive culture.”
Suggests the festival exemplifies the notion of an “imagined community,”
in this case one of white middle-class youth separate from society (i.e.,
Woodstock nation). States Jimi Hendrix’s deconstruction of The Star
Spangled Banner questioned the validity of the imagined community’s
“conditions of representability.”
24. Miles, Barry. Hippie. New York: Sterling, 2004.
Presents an illustrated and exhaustive commentary on the counterculture

movement of the 1960s. Places numerous milestone events in political,
historical, and cultural contexts. Dedicates some text to the 1969
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the subsequent film, and related
anniversary events.
25. Miller, Timothy. The Hippies and American Values. Knoxville, TN:
University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Explains how the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was, despite initial
unfavorable press, “quickly mythologized by the counterculture as
the epitome of joy and peace.” Offers the festival’s meaning to the
counterculture was as “a cataclysm, a political event, a religious
experience, a glimpse of communal solidarity, the pinnacle of passive
consumerism, and the first free dope territory in America.” Claims
Woodstock and other rock music festivals of the same time period
created a tremendous sense of community and a desire for ongoing
communal experiences that could be created almost spontaneously.
Asserts counterculture membership came to be defined by self-sacrifice
for the greater communal good. Connects the festival to the then growing
counterculture desire to be free from the concept of money being a
necessity for life. Also connects Woodstock with a confirmation among
members of the counterculture that a drug revolution favoring greater
freedoms was in full strength.
26. Pell, George, Cardinal. God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion,
Politics, & Society. Ed. M. A. Casey. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University
of America Press, 2011.
Draws upon the author’s essays concerning key issues for Christians in
“determining the future of modern democratic life.” Contends Woodstock
’99, with its rioting, arson, and rapes, was an inevitable progression from
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes participants at both
festivals were rejecting their parent’s values, thus Woodstock ’99 was the
act of 1960s pacifism being spurned. Suggests the Woodstock concept of
liberty only traps people into a chaos derived from suppressed emotions
with negative consequences.
27. Pettman, Dominic. After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Ponders the Dionysian cult of the 1960s as manifested in the sexual

revolution and the possible underlying cause of its social acceptability
(i.e., a “profound fear of apocalypse” caused by an atomic bomb-inspired
cold war and the Vietnam War). Offers how the often used symbolism
attributed to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of representing a 1960s
degenerating utopia fails to “take into account the horror and panic that
encouraged the ‘free love’ in the first place.”
28. Powers, Devon. Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of
Rock Criticism. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Presents a history of key rock music critics and their legacy. Highlights
an analysis of Craig Karpel’s critique of “hip capitalist” in the music
business who tried to profit from the anti-capitalistic values of the
counterculture. Offers the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as the “best
example of the mutable relationship among capitalism, music, and
the counterculture.” Asks why the event is considered a triumph over
capitalism when, in fact, it was a capitalistic undertaking from the very
beginning. Explores whether an underlying ambivalence of the youth
movement to consumerism allowed a co-opting of hippie ethos.
29. Pratt, Ray. Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations of Political Uses of

Popular Music. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Interprets the political uses of popular music over the last two-hundred
years of American history. Defines popular music as an attempt to create
community in the face of social transformations. Refers to the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair as being the apex of “explicitly political popular
music.” Notes the festival was a symbol of “oppositional popular culture”
and fed into a fantasy of creating a new type of self-sufficient community
based on the joy of music.
30. Rosenman, Joel, John Roberts, and Robert Pilpel. Young Men with
Unlimited Capital. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
Chronicles the business machinations leading up to the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair. Provides narrative first-hand details on forming
personal partnerships, dealing with the banks, attempting to secure a
site, working with complicating zoning laws, handling building permits,
managing third parties trying to get in on the action (or at least profit
from it), and following the money (or at least trying to). Describes the
first meeting of the four key promoters: Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld,
Joel Rosenman, and John Roberts. Narrates key meetings, such as
with the Wallkill Zoning Board of Appeals, occurring along the way
to solidifying the logistics for the festival. Introduces key personnel of
Woodstock Ventures, the company formed to marshal resources for the
event. Details how the festival site was eventually finalized on the farm
of Max Yasgur. Mentions Abbie Hoffman attempting to extort money
from the promoters. Relates how the Hog Farm commune came to be
engaged “for peace-keeping, medical, and general assistance purposes.”
Conveys how a local performance by the Earthlite Theater in White
Lake, New York, nearly derailed the festival because the actors stripped
on stage. Offers day-to-day perspectives on the actual event from both
Rosenman and Roberts. Explains the crisis created when the Grateful
Dead’s manager demanded payment upfront before his band would
take the stage. Includes a somewhat humorous profit/loss statement as
of December 31, 1973.
31. Rubin, Jerry. Do it!: Scenarios of the Revolution. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1970.
Represents a counterculture political manifesto, somewhat. Makes a

passing reference to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a “spontaneous
triumph of anarchy.” Introduction to the book by Eldridge Cleaver.
32. Ruiz, Teofilo F. The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life

in Western Civilization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839421
Contemplates the “human response to the terror of history” and how

humanity seeks to create meaning of the world and events. Considers
the ways in which this is done, through embracing religious experiences
to pursuing material wealth. Believes these are attempts at escapism.
Mentions the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of how
many live vicariously through the actions of others (i.e., many claim
to have attended the festival although they, in fact, did not). States the
idealized combination of music, peace, and nonviolence provided a
“slim possibility to dehistoricize our lives” and this is why the concept of
Woodstock still resonates.
33. Smith, Chas. From Woodstock to the Moon: The Cultural Evolution of
Rock Music. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2001.
Serves as a middle-school textbook and is included here mostly as

an artifact. Discusses the notion of tribalism that evolved in the 1960s
among members of the counterculture. Offers the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair as the cumulating tribal event. Claims the drenching rain storms
provided a sought after “moment of pure egalitarianism.”
34. Street, John. Rebel Rock: The Politics of Popular Music. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1986.
Explores the ways in which political bodies make use of popular music
to pursue their agendas, the ways in which popular music is created
and managed by the music industry, and how popular music acquires
meaning through consumption. Describes the calculated methods used
to exploit the counterculture ethos in producing the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Compares and contrasts the 1969 festival with the Live Aid
concert in the 1985.
35. Sylvan, Robin. Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular
Music. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Reports on continuity from religious revival camp meetings from the

eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair in 1969. Suggests the festival and the ones following represented
a larger religious transformation. Claims by the late 1960s, rock music
had become an “important voice in the political and cultural changes”
sweeping America. Notes that a cultural transformation, however, did

not occur, despite Woodstock having demonstrated “the ability of the
counterculture to create what seemed to many a workable alternative
community on an unprecedented scale based on the values of peace and
love” and founded on rock music.
36. Weiner, Rex, and Deanne Stillman. Woodstock Census: The

Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
https://erowid.org/library/books_online/woodstock_census.pdf
Surveys self-selected members of the Woodstock generation regarding

their experiences during the 1960s and the 1970s. Reports 17% of
respondents consider the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to be “one
of the best experiences of the era.” Presents several comments on the
festival, mostly positive, from respondents who reported attending the
event. Includes a copy of the survey instrument and data results.
37. Werner, Craig. A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of
America. New York: Plume, 1999.
Explores relationships between popular music and racial politics.

Comments briefly on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in the context
of rock music festivals of the 1960s and their overall lack of significance
to the African-American community. Suggest even the black performers
at Woodstock did not perform soul music. Focuses on Jimi Hendrix and
Otis Redding as representatives of African-American music to white
audiences.
38. Wiener, Jon. Come Together: John Lennon in His Time. New York:
Random House, 1984.
Surveys the political life of John Lennon. Touches quickly on the role of
rock music festivals as political expressions. Observes the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair highlighted the extent to which the political radicals
of the 1960s were weak within the overall counterculture movement.
Relays a rejection by the promoters of Woodstock of an offer by John
Lennon to play the festival after he said he could not deliver the Beatles.
39. Zolov, Eric. Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
Shows the influence of rock music on Mexico’s social, cultural, and

political environments. Uses the 1968 student movement and the Mexican
regime’s “crisis of authority” as a point of reference. Discusses the 1971
Avandaro rock music festival that used the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair as a model. Claims Avandaro “represented the appropriation of a
vanguard image of modernity borrowed from Woodstock and fused with
local cultural practice,” but Woodstock itself borrowed and romanticized
elements of Mexican folk culture. Explains how the Woodstock festival
had become “a parable for the story of the United States itself.” Notes
Woodstock symbolized a productive relationship between public culture
and private enterprise. Suggests the “urban middle-class youth around
the world were eagerly appropriating the images, language, music” of
Woodstock for their own purposes of rebellion. Observes unlike ongoing
cultural influences of Woodstock, Avandaro’s legacy has been “repressed
in the name of cultural imperialism.”
Chapters
40. Ambrose, Joe. “White Riot — Woodstock ‘99.” Moshpit: The Violent
World of Mosh Pit Culture. London: Omnibus Press, 2001. 15–26.
Asserts Woodstock ’99 gave America “a wake-up call as stark as that

which the original festival gave in ’69.” Notes the original Woodstock
Music and Art Fair was about youth “making love” whereas Woodstock
’99 was about youth “making war,” referencing the violence associated
with the latter. Reports on the “atmosphere of claustrophobic sexism”
at Woodstock ’99 and how it was exhibited to the world through
televised pay-per-view. Describes the contexts which led to the rioting.
Places some of the blame on the performance by the band Limp Bizkit
during which singer Fred Durst incited violent behavior. Relays specific
instances of rape in the mosh pit. Suggests some of the events at the
earlier Woodstock ’94 foreshadowed the Woodstock ’99 disaster. Offers
the Woodstock ’99 rioters represented “middle-class white kids getting
away with murder in situations where Black and Latino kids would
have been crushed.” Quotes some of the performers’ observations about
the violence.
41. Anderson, Terry H. “Counterculture.” The Movement and the Sixties.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 241–291.
Attempts to define and explain the social activism of the 1960s. Examines
the youth movement which evolved in response to the political and
social environment of the cold war era. Describes membership in the
counterculture as being an individualistic journey. Covers the Civil
Rights Movement, the drug culture, and the Vietnam War. States the
somewhat isolated rural setting of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
resulted in participants establishing “their own culture with their own

rules, rituals, costumes, and standards of behavior.” Observes the
festival’s various potential disasters associated with poor sanitation and
lack of food generated a growing sense of community which, in turn,
created an “an unforgettable countercultural experience.” Explains how
Woodstock as a phenomenon led underground cultural figures to view
it as a beginning of a political youth movement. Continues by noting
major concurrent events of 1969, the Manson murders and the disastrous
Altamont Speedway concert, quickly sidetracked the utopianism created
by Woodstock.
42. Baritz, Loren. “Culture War.” The Good Life: The Meaning of Success
for the American Middle Class. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 225–288.
Articulates the potential power of the 1960s youth movement and uses
concisely the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to illustrate. Claims many
individuals assumed the festival unleashed generational pressures that
“would finally free America.” Concludes the cultural upheaval was based
on “the force of irrationality.”
43. “Between Paradise and Apocalypse.” Interviews with Northrop Frye.

Ed. Jean O’Grady. v. 24. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press,
2008. 367–399. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688377-043
Transcribes an interview with literary critic Northrop Frye conducted

in February 1978 by Don Harron. Converses on a diverse religious
awakening emergent from the 1960s counterculture. Comments on the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair in a comparison of religious revivals
with political rallies. Frye offers “Woodstock was the most obviously
Dionysiac phenomenon that there’s been in modern society.” States that
the festival was “a rather pathetic illusion that somehow or other you
could, again, break through the crust of history and get into a different
way of existence altogether by a kind of emotional release.”
44. Bloustien, Gerry. “Still Picking Children from the Trees?

Reimagining Woodstock in Twenty-First-Century Australia.”
Remembering Woodstock. Ed. Andy Bennett. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate,
2004. 127–145.
Demonstrates how the legacy of the Woodstock Music and Art

Fair “still reverberates in time and space, far from its original source.”
Uses WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) as an example of a
manifestation of nostalgia for a “return to the Woodstock dream, if not
the reality.” Contends a desire for shared experience is fulfilled through
the dramatization of myth (i.e., re-enacting the spirit of Woodstock).
45. Brackett, David. “Festivals: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”
The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005. 223–229.
Devotes an essay to rock music festivals. Comments on J. R. Young’s

“review” of the album Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack
and More appearing originally in Rolling Stone magazine (July 9, 1970).
Notes the review highlights self-delusion within the counterculture of
the 1960s. Incorporates a reprint of the review. Includes a section on the
infamous Altamont Speedway concert featuring the Rolling Stones.
46. Chapple, Steve, and Rebee Garofalo. “The Expanded Industry.”

Rock ‘n’ Roll is here to Pay: The History and Politics of the Music Industry.
Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1977. 123–169.
Begins with the premise of rock music being the “the most important
cultural expression in the United States today.” Covers the topics of
agents, managers, and promoters before launching into a discussion
on the staging of rock concerts. Mentions the value of the Monterey
International Pop Festival in bringing to the attention of record companies
many up and coming rock acts. Focuses on the financial mess created
by the disorganization of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes the
relatively young age of the festival’s promoters. Highlights in what ways
the event was a good example of the counterculture profiting off of the
counterculture. Explains the actual profits came from the subsequent
Woodstock film and sound recordings. Suggests Woodstock attendees
were merely “the largest unpaid studio audience in history.” Continues
with a discussion of the Altamont Speedway concert. Concludes with a
commentary on the rock music press and its relationship with, and role
within, the rest of the industry.
47. Dessner, Lawrence J. “Woodstock: A Nation at War.” Things in

the Driver’s Seat: Readings in Popular Culture. Ed. Harry Russell Huebel.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972. 245–251.
Suggests participants in the Woodstock Music and Art Fair represent a

coming together of a new community, later reproduced and enlarged
through the motion picture Woodstock. Offers this new community has
repudiated violence by virtue of their expressed moral opposition the
Vietnam War, yet has reproduced itself in the “mirror images of the very
war they oppose.” Supports this assertion by noting approximately the
same number of persons attending the festival, an invading force into
rural America, equaled the number of Americans who went to Vietnam.
Notes the natives of Bethel, New York, supplied basic necessities but
did not engage with the “invaders.” Continues by drawing numerous

parallels between the invading American military and the invading
Woodstock audience and promoters, including the eventual abandoning
of the scarred battlefield. Concludes Woodstock was a manifestation of
“a paradigm of the military culture.”
48. Diltz, Henry. “Jimi Hendrix Playing at Woodstock.” Government,

Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources. Eds. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda
Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit, MI: Thomson,
2006. 20–22.
Focuses on the significance of Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes how Hendrix did not get to
perform until Monday morning, thus the audience was lethargic due to
three days of exhaustion. Adds his band was poorly rehearsed. Considers
it to be, in the end, “one of history’s most important rock performances.”
Summarizes the 1969 festival‘s place in contemporary culture.
49. Dotter, Daniel. “Rock and Roll is here to Stray: Youth Subculture,
Deviance, and Social Typing in Rock’s Early Years.” Adolescents and their
Music: If it’s Too Loud, You’re Too Old. Ed. Jonathan S. Epstein. New York:
Garland, 1994. 87–114.
Studies the relationship between rock music and deviant behavior

in the early years (1950s) of the genre. Looks at the facilitating role of
mass media and the social construction of deviance. Contrasts with the
evolution to the 1960s when lifestyle deviance married with political
deviance. Discusses the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as being the
zenith of such deviance. Suggests the festival was both “a celebration
of and also an obituary for the 1960s.” Continues by noting the further
evolution of these two types of deviance (lifestyle and political) into
commercial commodities through positive presentation in the media.
50. Fischer, Klaus P. “Countercultural Protest Movements.” America

in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s. New York: Continuum
International, 2006. 295–335.
Questions whether the youth movement of the 1960s represented a true

counterculture. Focuses on the rise of the hippie culture as a reaction
to the previous generation’s middle-class conventions and the demands
for a more inclusive and liberal society. Includes a section on “The Myth
of the Woodstock Nation.” Claims the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
“gave the world a visual sense of the new lifestyle in action.” Describes
the new lifestyle as primitive tribal bonding with Woodstock being a

metaphor for a state of mind. States both positive and negative views
of the festival are overblown, noting the event did not, in fact, signal a
cultural paradigm shift in any direction. Acknowledges Woodstock was
a heightened “split between Dionysian protest and a decaying form of
Apollonian mainstream.” Argues the counterculture rebellion against
capitalism, in the end, strengthened the economic model.
51. Glausser, Wayne. “Santana.” Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD. Jefferson,

NC: McFarland, 2011. 141.
States the defining moment for the music group Santana was their
performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Reports Carlos
Santana later admitting to being under the influence of LSD during their
set, claiming it was “beyond scary.”
52. Gordon, Andy. “Satan & the Angels: Paradise Loused.” Altamont:
Death of Innocence in the Woodstock Nation. Ed. Jonathan Eisen. New York:
Avon Books, 1970. 30–71.
Traces the lead up to the Altamont Speedway concert through a

discussion grounded in the traditions of the harvest festival and the town
jester (“sanctioned release for anarchic and satanic impulse”). Starts with
the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, then moves through the mid-1960s San
Francisco scene and the 1968 Chicago riots, to 1969’s Woodstock Music
and Art Fair and then to Altamont Speedway. Likens the Woodstock
myth to Huckleberry Finn contrasted with Altamont Speedway being like
Lord of the Flies. The remainder of the book is built around this chapter.
53. Klein, Pip. “A Woodstock Festivalgoer Explains Why the Experience

Cannot be Reproduced.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock.
Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 199–203.
Recounts the author’s attendance in 1998 at a Woodstock commemorative

concert held at Monticello Raceway near the site of the 1969 Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Articulates the differences between the two events,
including the ease of parking, selling of expensive t-shirts, and presence
of ATMs. Describes attending the 1969 festival as an “eclipse” because
one was “there watching it, you know that it’s an incredible coming
together of cosmic forces — and it’s never going to happen again.” Notes
the nostalgia value of attending these more recent happenings because
“you can dream, even if you can’t go home again.” Includes a humorous
chart contrasting the 1969 and 1998 events.
54. Kopkind, Andrew. “Coming of Age in Aquarius.” Takin’ it to the

Streets: A Sixties Reader. Eds. Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 511–516.
Presents a politicized account of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

Compares it to the French revolution and the San Francisco earthquake.
Claims the festival “defied categories and conventional perceptions.”
Focuses on the cooptation and commercialization of the counterculture
ethos, suggesting the event was “a test of the ability of avant-garde
capitalism at once to profit from and control the insurgencies which
its system spawns.” Declares the event to represent a new culture of
opposition.
55. Laing, Dave. “The Three Woodstocks and the Live Music Scene.”
2004. 1–17.
Uses the three Woodstock concerts (1969, 1994, and 1999) as well as other
major rock music festivals to illustrate an increasingly corporatization
of live music presentations. Compares and contrasts the three events.
Focuses on three elements: a) the evolution of music festivals as carnival,
where the attraction is to be part of an event as opposed to seeing and
hearing any one particular performer, b) the evolution of the music
festival business from entrepreneurial to corporate enterprise, and c)
the “deterritorialization” of live music events due to increased access
via technology. Views the original 1969 Woodstock festival as the “fatal
moment” when idealism and commercialism became disentwined.
56. Lieberman, Paul. “Some Festivalgoers Continue to Promote the

Ideal of the Woodstock Generation.” Perspectives on Modern World
History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press,
2012. 111–121.
Reprints an August 15, 2009, article from the Los Angeles Times in which
the author admits to using government anti-poverty funds to purchase a
bus in order to haul himself and his frustrated social-activists associates
“over the Berkshires” to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in the summer
of 1969. Profiles his comrades and details the circumstances leading
to the adventure. Relates their experience at the concert. Provides an
update on each participant and describes how they continue to address
social issues. Includes a sidebar on Wavy Gravy.
57. Lytle, Mark Hamilton. “The Uncivil Wars: Woodstock to Kent

State.” America’s Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of
Richard Nixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 334–356.
Suggests the positive outcome of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
was it being viewed as a “revolution in consciousness,” referencing
Charles Reich’s bestseller The Greening of America. Then claims this was a
naïve perspective because the festival was a unique occurrence due to a
confluence of circumstance and any attempts to repeat it would likely be
corrupted by commercialism. Offers the Altamont Speedway concert as
evidence. Comments on the symbolic links that have been made between
the Manson murders and Altamont. Claims commercialism is the “most
defining quality of American culture.” Asserts the deteriorating drug
culture and associated violence helped destroy the counterculture.
Continues with an analysis of Richard Nixon’s politics, his presidency,
the Vietnam War opposition, and how this political unrest climaxed
symbolically with the Kent State shootings.
58. Meade, Marion. “The Degradation of Women.” The Sounds of Social

Change. Eds. R. Serge Denisoff and Richard A. Peterson. Chicago: Rand
McNally, 1972. 173–177.
Starts with conveying the author’s reaction to the motion picture

Woodstock. States she found the film disturbing because all the performers
shown, except for Joan Baez, were men. Notes men are depicted in
the movie “building the stage, directing traffic, shooting the film, and
running the festival.” Offers women are portrayed cooking, feeding
babies, or “sprawled erotically in the grass.” Uses the film to confirm the
notion of rock music culture being degrading to women.
59. Moore, Allan F. “The Contradictory Aesthetics of Woodstock.”

2004. 75–89.
Theorizes the phrase “Woodstock Nation” implies a relationship

between music and society that may be, in fact, illusionary — that
“certain musical practices acted as a universalizing social force.” Seeks
to connect the attributions of a “Woodstock Nation” to selected musical
performances at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Itemizes the varied
musical styles represented at the festival as: acoustic singer, retro
rock and roll, progressive blues, blue-eyed soul, psychedelia, country
rock, soul funk, straight-ahead rock, and unrestrainedly exotic (Ravi
Shankar). Concludes contradictory performances “both in terms of

stylistic parameters and in terms of their expression of social values” did
reflect the counterculture and a conflict inherent in maintaining both
individuality and social structure.
60. Mottram, Eric. “Dionysus in America.” Blood on the Nash

Ambassador: Investigations in American Culture. London: Hutchinson
Radius, 1989. 181–220.
Collects essays written by the author representing studies on American

culture. Traces the experimental art forms emerging in the 1950s and
1960s to America’s nineteenth-century past. Describes rock music
as a specifically American art with social and political implications
challenging traditional forms. Explores the impact of electronically
produced music on the emergence of rock music. Focuses on the
music group The Doors as representing an expression of the Dionysus
experience. Offers the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and the Altamont
Speedway concert as “Dionysian energy polarized finally between two
distinct events.” Discusses the Dionysian context of Woodstock. Follows
by contrasting the ethos of Altamont Speedway concert’s “working
class” audience with Woodstock’s “middle class” attendees as a possible
explanation for the very different experiences.
61. Myers, Alice. “Woodstock Concerts.” The Nineties in America. Ed.

Milton Berman. v. 3. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. 933–935.
Contrast both Woodstock ‘94 and Woodstock ‘99 with the original 1969
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes Woodstock ‘94 was markedly
different due to the presence of heavy corporate sponsorship and overt
commercialism. Observes Woodstock ‘99 was marred by violence due
to a shift in social norms among the youth culture. Comments the 1999
concert also introduced use of the Internet as a promotional means.
Claims the significance of the two events in the 1990s was the “the
appropriation of counterculture by marketing” and the evolution of rock
festivals into “global media events.”
62. Rand, Ayn. “Apollo and Dionysus.” The New Left: The Anti-
Industrial Revolution. New York: New American Library, 1970. 57–81.
https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1969/01/01/apollo-and-dionysus
Contains Rand’s treatise on Apollo and Dionysus in which she evokes the
Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to illustrate
reason versus emotions. Delves into how the news media portrayed
and discussed both events. Offers the moon landing as an example
the highest of ideals and Woodstock as the lowest. Claims these two
events from 1969 demonstrate “specific forms in which philosophical
abstractions appear in our actual existence.”
63. Rectanus, Mark W. “Sponsoring Events: Culture as Corporate

Stage, From Woodstock to Ravestock and Reichstock.” Culture
Incorporated: Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorship. Minneapolis,
MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 132–168.
Examines the relationships of corporations, art institutions, and

foundations and the effects on culture. Explores corporate sponsored
cultural events and associated implications. Holds the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair as one of two examples of unsponsored events
“represented in the media as expressions of resistance to or subversion of
commodified culture.” Acknowledges Woodstock was not intended to
be a rejection of commodified culture, it was, rather, a failed commercial
venture. Explains how a sense of community arose spontaneously as a
reaction to the unexpected magnitude of the festival combined with the
adverse weather conditions. Points to Woodstock ’94 and Woodstock ’99
as demonstrating how “institutionalized production and signification
of the event by the media and sponsors assumes a pivotal position.”
Notes the original 1969 Woodstock festival had to be deconstructed
and reconfigured in order to market Woodstock ’94 in terms of serving
“apolitical, environmentally friendly, and technological conscious
consumerism.” Describes Woodstock ’99 as the opposite of the 1969
concert in terms of greed and violence, noting the primary objective
of the former was purely profit motivated. The second example
highlighted in this chapter is the art piece Wrapped Reichstag by artists
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Suggests both Woodstock and Wrapped
Reichstag accumulated cultural capital by signifying a political ethos.
64. Rodrick, Stephen. “The Woodstock 1994 Festival Reflects Cultural

Changes.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise I.
Gerdes. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 171–175.
Reprints an article first appearing in The New Republic (September

5, 1994). Discusses marketing excesses of Woodstock ‘94 and the
aggressive audience backlash. Describes violence in the mosh pit as
“terrorism.” Contrasts with the peacefulness of attendees at the original
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
65. Schuman, Howard, Robert F. Belli, and Katherine Bischoping.

“The Generational Basis of Historical Knowledge.” Collective Memory
of Political Events: Social Psychological Perspectives. Eds. James W.

Pennebaker, Dario Paez, and Bernard Rime. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 1997. 47–77. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203774427
Hypothesizes one is likely to have accurate knowledge of events

occurring prior to birth and knowledge of past events declines gradually;
adolescence provides a unique time in one’s life to acquire knowledge
of large-scale events outside of one’s own life and, therefore, adults who
were older when an event occurs will have less knowledge of the event
than adolescents; and gender and race affect knowledge of events when
they have a personal meaning in relation to it. Includes the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair as one of eleven events used to test the hypotheses.
Notes that the Holocaust and Woodstock were described adequately
by more than 60% of respondents, compared to less than 15% for the
Marshall Plan. Notes the Woodstock results show “clear evidence of
the predicted curvilinear relations to age.” Suggests openness to new
knowledge and the imprint of first experiences during adolescence
accounts for the conclusion.
66. Sobran, Joseph. “The Fans at Woodstock were Outcasts Looking

for Belonging.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed.
Louise I. Gerdes. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 102–110.
Asserts hippies, as represented by those attending the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair in 1969, “were positively hungry for authority” and they
settled for it in the only available form of peer pressure. Claims the
stereotypical image of hippies was a realistic portrayal in that they all
looked and talked alike. Insists Woodstock proved “when their numbers
reach critical mass, they become a market, and you can herd them
together and tell them things they desperately want to hear,” such as how
all their unresolved personal problems are really only one big political
problem that can be solved instantaneously. Originally published in
National Review (September 1, 1989). Includes a sidebar on the history of
the iconic Woodstock poster.
67. Stern, Jane, and Michael Stern. “Woodstock.” Encyclopedia of Pop

Culture: An A to Z Guide of Who’s Who and What’s What, from Aerobics And
Bubble Gum to Valley of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa. New York: Harper
Perennial, 1992. 567–569.
Asserts the Woodstock Music and Art Fair represented attitudes and
beliefs that still have “towering resonance.” Notes the festival is still
used to benchmark the baby boomer generation’s successes and failures.

Recounts the difficulties in securing a location for the festival. Observes
while the concert was a celebration of peace and love, many of the
attendees made the journey to Bethel, New York, as a political statement.
Comments the site resembled a battlefield with tents and makeshift
medical accommodations.
68. Street, John. “‘Invisible Republics’: Making Music, Making

History.” Music and Politics. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2012. 98–117.
Investigates the way in which music provides a perspective on history

and the associate invested political meanings. Highlights two examples,
the box set of recordings known as Anthology of American Folk Music and
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes Woodstock is a prominent
marker in “the mythology of music” and the festival both writes history
and creates politics (i.e., politics being encoded in cultural contexts).
Comments on the “notoriously fuzzy” history of Woodstock, citing
conflicting data and perspectives. Observes the Woodstock festival
exists today as remembered through a “multiplicity of incarnations.”
Surveys the life of the event on the worldwide web, mostly as utopian
idealism and focused on its socio-political significance. Contrasts
with the meaning ascribed by mass media, which is a shorthand for
mass gatherings and/or life-changing culture happenings, a historical
marker, and an aesthetic. Contrast further with the festival’s debated
significance in the history of rock music. Offers four narratives on the
“politics of representing Woodstock” (regulatory enlightenment, radical
engagement, cynical commercial exploitation, and the melding of
politics and music).
69. Street, John. “This is Your Woodstock: Popular Memories and

Political Myths.” Remembering Woodstock. Ed. Andy Bennett. Aldershot,
U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 29–42.
Compares the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair to the 1985 Live
Aid concert in terms of political change and legacy. Begins by looking
at the ways in which Woodstock continues to live “not as a historical
entity, but as a multiplicity of symbols and signs.” Notes the often made
references to Woodstock when describing other things (e.g., Woodstock-
like) in order to convey sometimes conflicting ideals. Reports on a
study conducted by the author in 1999 in which college students were
asked what the word “Woodstock” signaled to them. Notes responses
indicated the music “seemed relatively insignificant” compared to
images of the counterculture. Comments on how historical texts place
varying emphasis on the Woodstock festival, if any at all. Argues Live

Aid had a more significant and lasting impact on the collective political
conscious. Points toward many socio-political similarities between the
two concerts, but notes their legacies are quite different. Concludes the
lasting mythology of Woodstock may contribute to “the history and
character of popular music,” but perhaps not as much to the connection
between music and politics.
70. Waksman, Steve. “Popular Culture in the Public Arena.”

Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History. v. 2. Eds. Mary
Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams. New York: Charle’s Scribner’s
Sons, 2001. 143–150.
Touches quickly on Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled

Banner at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Proclaims Hendrix’s
rendition was “at once a supreme act of defamiliarization and a stunning
political critique.”
71. Weinstein, Deena. “Youth.” Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture.
Eds. Bruce Horner and Thomas Swiss. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
101–110.
Addresses questions of how vocabulary shapes one’s thinking about

popular music. Mentions the Woodstock Music and art Fair as having
“demonstrated youth’s cohesiveness as a social group defined by age”
and a “myth of eternal youth.” Contends the festival was as much about
youth as it was rock music.
72. Whiteley, Sheila. “’1, 2, 3 what are we Fighting 4?’ Music, Meaning
and ‘the Star Spangled Banner’.” Remembering Woodstock. Ed. Andy
Bennett. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 18–28.
Analyses Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair from a historical perspective in order to
comment on the use of music in political protest, social criticism, and
especially in opposition to the Vietnam War. Introduces the Civil Rights
Movement in order to contextualize the state of the urban African
American experience during the 1960s. Claims the reactions to Hendrix’s
rendering of the national anthem and how it has come to be “considered
by so many to be the most complex and powerful work of American art
to deal with the Vietnam War and its effects on successive generations
of the American psyche.” Contends Hendrix’s performance was an
intentional personal statement about the turbulence of the times.
73. Wiener, Jon. “Woodstock Revisited.” The Age of Rock 2: Sights and
Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution. Ed. Jonathan Eisen. New
York: Vintage Books, 1970. 170–172.
Scrutinizes the claimed profits, or lack thereof, from the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair against the actual expenses. Reports the amounts
some of the musical acts were paid. Concludes the festival was not a
revolutionary victory over capitalism, but instead was a success for
those seeking to profit through exploitation of the counterculture. Calls
for a ban on multi-day rock festivals and demands “free music in the
parks every week.”
74. Willis, Ellen. “Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning.”

Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll. Minneapolis.
MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 45–50. https://doi.org/10.5749/
minnesota/9780816680788.001.0001
Reprints New Yorker article (September 6, 1969) written by music

critic, Ellen Willis, shortly after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Applauds the festival promoters for creating the illusion of the concert
hardships as being “a capricious natural disaster rather than a product
of human incompetence” resulting from their “sheer hubris.” Calls
for Woodstock Ventures to make its financial books public. States that
the success of Woodstock was due mainly to the fact that the massive
amounts of attendees were determined to enjoy themselves regardless
of the conditions. Claims the rebelliousness of rock music does not
automatically translate into a single unifying political agenda and “there
can’t be a revolutionary culture until there is a revolution.” Concludes
by noting rock music is “bourgeois at its core,” being mass-produced
and technology dependent, thus controlled by power and money.
75. Willis, Ellen. “Million Man Mirage.” The Essential Ellen

Willis. Ed. Nona Willis Aronowitz. Minneapolis, MN: University
of Minnesota Press, 2014. 339–342. https://doi.org/10.5749/
minnesota/9780816681204.003.0037
Comments on how the news media’s coverage of the Million Man

March in 1995 reminded the author of the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Observes during the Woodstock festival, news media ignored
the “incompetence and dangerous irresponsibility of its promoters”
and other significant negative social issues surrounding the event and,
instead, focused on the more positive “spectacular exercise of collective
will to live out a utopian moment.” Acknowledges to have done the
opposite would have meant the news media missed the major story of
the event. Suggests utopian moments without a particular social vision
or goals can lead to unpredictable consequences, not all favorable.
Original published in the Village Voice (November 1995).
76. “Woodstock.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed.

William A. Darity. 2nd ed. v. 9. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA,
2008. 120–121.
Asserts the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is the “quintessential

symbol” of the 1960s counterculture. Provides some background on
the festival. Claims “intellectuals, the press, popular entertainment,
and the advertising industry have made Woodstock into the symbol of
the cultural and political ideals of the late 1960s.” Argues the ethos of
the festival continues, citing the bands such as the Grateful Dead and
Phish who have large followings of fans evoking counterculture values
and lifestyles. Offers the annual Bonnaroo music festival as the closest
contemporary event with similarities to 1969’s Woodstock festival.
77. “The Woodstock Generation and Rock Music are Dangerous to

American Culture.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed.
Reprints Wall Street Journal article from August 28, 1969. Warns of a dire
future if hippies were to eventually take positions of power and influence.
Suggests this would be a regression that “will be at best a culturally
poorer America and maybe a politically degenerated America.” Points
to the counterculture lifestyle as anarchic and thus counterproductive,
even harmful. Concludes by stating “opting for physical, intellectual and
cultural squalor seems an odd way to advance civilization.” Includes a
sidebar on hippie fashion.
78. Young, J. R. “Review of Various Artists, Woodstock.” The Pop, Rock,

and Soul Reader: Histories and Debates. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2005. 225–227.
Attempts to “explore the interconnection between popular music,

musical techniques, current events, and social identity.” Reprints
of a record “review” of the album Woodstock: Music from the Original
Soundtrack and More. Originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine (July
9, 1970). Serves more as a commentary on the more delusional elements
of the 1960s counterculture.
Articles
79. Bernstein, Abraham. “Cultural Clash, Crash, and Cash.” English
Journal 60.6 (1971): 773–777. https://doi.org/10.2307/812992
Discourses on the concept of “clash” and its use in democracies and

in the classroom. Claims democracies employ deeply held adversarial
stances and contention “dressed up, perfumed, decorated, and policed
into decency.” Points to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example
of “a quarter-million sheep gathered into one place at one time, who
didn’t know they were being sheared, while praise and poetry arose
from the young and even from the presumed enemies of the young.”
Describes members of the 1960s counterculture as chumps because they
were merely a “means of profit, and not much more, to promoters of
Woodstock and the publishers of Jerry Rubin and Abbey Hoffman.”
80. Bissell, Roger E. “Will the Real Apollo Please Stand Up? Rand,
Nietzsche, and the Reason-Emotion Dichotomy.” Journal of Ayn Rand
Studies 10.2 (2009): 343–369.
Evokes Ayn Rand’s treatises on emulation and David Keirsey’s theory

of personality in order to explore the true nature of the Greek god
Apollo. Notes these and other individuals think “they understand
something essential about Apollo’s nature and character, either in terms
of philosophical aspects of his personality, his behavioral traits, or his
social persona.” Discusses, in particular, Rand’s essay on the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair participants being irrational when contrasted with
the rationality of the Apollo moon mission. Concludes Apollo is “the
god of extraverted intuition” because he explores the world, making
connections between nature and humans “and exercising creative
invention, whether artistic or theoretical.”
81. Browne, Robert M. “Response to Edward P. J. Corbett, ‘the

Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist’.”
College Composition and Communication 21.2 (1970): 187–190 https://doi.
org/10.2307/356560
Responds to a previous article published in this publication by

questioning “how relevant is the traditional framework of rhetoric to
the new forms of persuasion and action.” Confesses to being “disturbed
by the fact that one of the older rhetoric’s chief functions has been an
essentially conservative one: to keep the political system going.” Points
to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, as well as the 1969 Moratorium
March on Washington, as demonstrating “new cultural styles and new

politics” which utilize rhetorical strategies affirming identity. Claims
rhetoric which assists in the building of a community “may well exploit
means that are non-verbal, fragmentary, interlocutory, and alienating.”
Concludes by noting this newer style of rhetoric is a better reflection of
the social unrests in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
82. Carlevale, John. “Dionysus Now: Dionysian Myth-History in the

Sixties.” Arion 13.2 (2005): 77–116.
Examines extensively the frequent use of “Dionysus and the Dionysian”

as metaphor in the 1960s. Refers to Ayn Rand’s commentary on the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair in which she illustrates a crisis of values.
Criticizes Rand’s rhetoric and contents Rand’s “narrative proposes yet
another mythologization of the moment: Dionysus, god of unreason,
has come and taken over the mind of the intellectual elite.” Observes
“Dionysus has a way of making the latest thing seem like the most ancient
truth, of making what we have never seen seem like something we have
always known or should have known.”
83. Clecak, Peter. “The Revolution Delayed: The Political and Cultural
Revolutionaries in America.” Massachusetts Review 12.3 (1971): 590–619.
Discourses on the political revolutionaries of the 1960s counterculture,

claiming “the new radicals possessed no clear program, no viable
organization, not even a formidable constituency.” Adds “they were
innocent of the disastrous potentialities of moral vision insufficiently
tempered by political realism.” Focuses on Abbie Hoffman’s attempt to
articulate a “Woodstock nation.” States that Hoffman saw the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair as a model and “the birth of a nation.” Faults Hoffman
for relying on his own fashioned social myth based on the Woodstock
festival phenomenon and having “no need for elaborate theory, no
need for social vision, and no need for a politics of transition.” Refers to
Hoffman as being similar to the fictional character Holden Caufield from
the novel Catcher in the Rye. Insists the real political revolution should
not be side tracked by radicals lacking strategy.
84. Corning, Amy, and Howard Schuman. “Commemoration Matters:

The Anniversaries of 9/11 and Woodstock.” Public Opinion Quarterly
77.2 (2013): 433–454. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nft015
Studies the effect of commemorating the anniversaries of the Woodstock

and Music and Art Fair and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
on the collective memory and knowledge of each event. Examines the
eighth and tenth anniversaries of 9/11 and the fortieth anniversary of

the Woodstock festival. Findings suggest commemorative activities
heighten the importance and knowledge of the events and breakdown
along socio-economic status and ethnicity. Claims the results “offer
insights into the educative and evocative roles of commemoration.”
Suggests commemorations that result in evoking identities may also
shift collective memories.
85. “Deadline Club Protests Police use of News Photos.” The Quill 87.6
(1999): 76.
Mentions use by New York State Police of copyrighted photographs

taken during the riots that occurred at Woodstock ’99. Reports objections
raised by the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists.
86. Demers, Jason. “An American Excursion: Deleuze and Guattari

from New York to Chicago.” Theory & Event 14.1 (2011). http://dx.doi.
org/10.1353/tae.2011.0007
Proposes French artist Jean-Jacques Lebel served as a connecting link

between French and American political activism of the late 1960s, linking
French theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to American
anarchists. States Lebel attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
with his friend Abbie Hoffman in order to liberate the festival via cutting
open the fences. Offers Lebel’s interpretation of liberation was necessary
because capitalism was “using the youth culture industry as a means to
absorb the energies of young people, diverting the movement away from
political engagement.” Reports Lebel realized that, more importantly,
behind the capitalist were politicians wanting to dominate and control
the social structure.
87. “A Discussion: ‘The New Puritanism’ Reconsidered.” Salmagundi

106/107 (1995): 194–256.
Transcribes, in edited format, a discussion devoted to the Spring 1994

special issue of this journal on “The New Puritanism.” Reports on one of
the speakers, Jean Elshtain, being reminded of a scene from the motion
picture Woodstock in which a male attendee, with a female companion
beside him, says he looks forward to having sex at the festival with many
women. Observes “then you see the young woman’s face fall, as though
a cloud crossed it.” States “this kind of distance between the sexes is
something that needs to be addressed.”
88. Dreyfus, Hubert L. “Comments on Jonathan Lear’s ‘Radical

Hope’ (Harvard: 2006).” Philosophical Studies 144 (2009): 63–70.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-009-9367-9 http://escholarship.org/uc/
item/60p3b5jx#page-8
Critiques a work on the effects and responses to cultural devastation.

Invokes the writings of Martin Heidegger regarding culturally marginal
practices. Offers the Woodstock Music and Fair as being representative
of a new cultural sensibility that “almost coalesced into a cultural
paradigm” where traditionally accepted norms were temporarily
marginalized to make room for more “pagan practices.” Claims that
if more people had recognized the hint of this as a potential cultural
shift, then “a new understanding of being might have been focused and
stabilized.”
89. “Epidemiology of Substance Abuse at the 1994 Woodstock Music

Festival.” Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology 33.5 (1995): 503.
Prints an abstract of a study conducted by the New York Poison Control

Center intended to understand the nature and prevalence of illegal drug
abuse at mass gatherings. Uses on-site interview methodology. Reports
on the demographics of drug use at Woodstock ’94. Concludes there
was common use of multiple drugs, with marijuana being the most
widespread.
90. Espen, Hal. “The Woodstock Wars.” New Yorker August 15 (1994):
70–74.
Writes on the eve of Woodstock ’94 about its commercial nature in

relation to the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Comments on
the original festival and notes “the actuality of the ecstatic, miserable,
mud-soaked, beatific chaos of Woodstock was instantly turned into a
consumable media image.” Offers the motion picture Woodstock and
the triple-record album Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack
and More as examples. Observes Woodstock Ventures, this time around,
planned for a tightly managed Woodstock ’94 and engaged in “aggressive
marketing and merchandising.” Discusses how the 1969 festival was
more unsuccessful commercialism rather than anti-commercialism.
States an efficiently produced Woodstock ’94 will not be able to capture
the spirit of the original event because the hardships of the 1969 concert
created sense of solidarity for the sake of survival. Concludes by noting
an ongoing struggle to separate image (provided by mass media) from
reality (provided by experience).
91. Ethen, Michael. “The Festival is Dead, Long Live the ‘Festival’.”
Journal of Popular Music Studies 26.2–3 (2014): 251–267. https://doi.
org/10.1111/jpms.12076
Points to the security issues associated with the Monterey International

Pop Festival, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and the Altamont
Speedway concert as an introduction to discussing “Woodstock Laws.”
Highlights the Woodstock festival’s security strategies, such as self-
policing, which resulted in a “calmer sense of conspiracy.” Notes in
the early 1970s state and local governments enacted legislation (i.e.,
Woodstock Laws) to ensure greater security measures for both music
festival attendees and the surrounding communities. States new laws
were often punitive and too severe to be honored. Details several ways
in which the laws were enacted and enforced, citing specific rock music
festivals. Concludes “Woodstock Laws” resulted in a movement towards
crowd containment and size control, and reducing the number of days
over which the festivals would occur. Asserts the most significant impact
was the eventual movement of the events into sports stadiums thus
generating revenue for municipalities.
92. Fiori, Umberto. “Rock Music and Politics in Italy.” Popular Music 4
(1984): 261–277. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000006255
Delves into the history of politics surrounding public performances of

rock music in Italy. Observes concerns about rock music emphasizing
inter-generational conflict and would “conceal and act as a substitute
for the class battle.” Notes when large-scale rock concerts were being
increasingly organized and becoming politically aligned, the 1969
Woodstock Music and Art Fair served as the model. Claims the tribal
and universality mythology of the Woodstock festival served the desired
imagery that could be modeled for Italian political agendas. Explains
how Italian rock festivals differed from other large European concerts by
including organized activities to facilitate political debate.
93. Glass, Phyllis. “State ‘Copyright’ Protection for Performers: The

First Amendment Question.” Duke Law Journal 5 (1978): 1198–1232.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1372113 http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/
vol27/iss5/3/
Examines conflict between the media’s ability to report newsworthy

public performance events and an entertainer’s right to protect the
performance from unauthorized media distribution. Footnotes a court
case in which the musician who performed Mess Call on his flugelhorn at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair attempted unsuccessfully to prevent

the film footage from being used in a documentary. The musician sued
under the New York privacy statute, but the court held “the statute
was not intended to provide a cause of action for the appropriation of
a professional entertainer’s public performances.” The court also held
the documentary was a “privileged account of a newsworthy event; and
that, in any case, an appropriation of a 45-second performance must be
considered de minimus or insignificant.” Concludes courts need to define
newsworthiness “in a normative rather than a descriptive sense.”
94. Gutmann, David. “The Premature Gerontocracy: Themes of Aging

and Death in the Youth Culture.” Social Research 39.3 (1972): 416–448.
Expounds on the counterculture’s preoccupation with death, based

on the psychological resemblances between very old members of the
population and members of the counterculture youth. Claims youthful
ego can be only overcome by revolutionary violence of illicit drugs
because they bring on an “unboundaried state which is achieved
naturally in later life.” Illustrates by claiming the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair was a peaceful event because of marijuana and not due to the
magic of love. Concludes in highly technological, secular societies youth
become removed from meaningful labor by mass production and the
lack of symbolic incentives to sacrifice, resulting is a spiraling towards
gerontocracy.
95. Hansen, Gary N. “Transportation Planning for a Large Special

Event: The Woodstock ‘94 Experience.” ITE Journal 66.4 (1996): 34–36,
38–39.
Describes in detail the transportation logistical planning used to manage

traffic during Woodstock ’94. Notes fifteen state and local agencies were
involved in the efforts. Relates the early establishment of the goal of
having no private vehicles travel to the site. Discusses all of the plan’s
components: parking lot operations, shuttle and charter buses, traffic
volume projections, capacity analysis, policy development, signage,
and towing. Reports what actually happened during the festival,
such as having 100,000 more attendees than planned. Concludes the
transportation planning was a success, despite minor unanticipated
behaviors by the attendees.
96. Helfrich, Ronald. “’What can a Hippie Contribute to our

Community?’ Culture Wars, Moral Panics, and the Woodstock Festival.”
New York History 91.3 (2010): 221–243.
Delves into the political and cultural contexts surrounding the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Chronicles the difficulties the festival
promoters had in securing a site for the event and their attempts at
fostering positive community relations to that end. Describes the local
political maneuvering used in attempts to stop the concert. Covers the
local and state impact of the festival on elections, the legal system, and on
legislation designed to prevent future large-scale events unless all issues
of health, food, sanitation, crowd control, and safety are first addressed.
Observes and articulates how the festival was viewed in moral terms, by
both proponents and opponents. Notes “all sides in this ideological war
used the same terms but gave them very different meanings.” Claims the
debate paralleled the larger American cultural wars of the 1960s.
97. Hill, Alfred. “Defamation and Privacy Under the First

Amendment.” Columbia Law Review 76.8 (1976): 1205–1313. https://doi.
org/10.2307/1121666
Studies in-depth the areas of common law defamation regarding court

decision implications. Illustrates the idea of commercial appropriation
not needing to involve advertising by noting concisely a suit brought by
a latrine worker at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair who was featured
conspicuously in the commercial documentary motion picture Woodstock.
Highlights the court decision that merely being filmed “performing his
duties at a public event, which the festival clearly was, he would have
no claim for invasion of privacy; but he would have such a claim if he
was deliberately drawn out by the film makers” thus making him a
performer in the film.
98. Holbrook, Emily. “Behind the Music: How Music Festival

Organizers Manage the Risks of Burning Man, Lollapalooza, Coachella
and More.” Risk Management June (2011): 18+. http://www.rmmagazine.
com/2011/06/01/behind-the-music/
Poses the worst example of failed music festival risk management was
Woodstock ‘99. Observes the same conditions that affected originally
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair resulted in a much different
outcome in 1999. States with “oppressive heat, exorbitant food and water
prices, lack of security and an insufficient number of facilities, the crowd
of 200,000 turned to riot mode.” Reports property damage approached
$1 million and there were fights and rapes. Offers recommendations on
risk management for multi-day festivals.
99. Howard, John A. “Troubled America.” Vital Speeches of the Day

62.11 (1996): 340–343.
Prints the text of a speech by the author given to the Wisconsin Forum
in Milwaukee (January 23, 1996). Calls for new political leaders who will
steer the Unites States away from being a society of rights and entitlement
toward “resurrecting those virtuous norms of Christendom.” Claims the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an insurrection against morality and
decency. Asserts law enforcement’s failure to contain illegal drug use
at the festival meant the drug culture was then forever uncontrollable.
Declares the concert was the “seedbed for the gangs of lawless youth
that have turned cities into battlegrounds.”
100. Howard, Thomas. “Moral Order and the Humanities.” Journal of

General Education 32.2 (1980): 135–148.
Considers the problem of making the humanities relevant to real world

experiences, especially during periods of time in which the social order
may be at risk. Theorizes “there is a fixed moral order, that tradition,
convention, and law are the guardians and not the enemies of freedom,
that no society can hold itself together without transcendent moral
sanctions.” Offers as one example the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Reports mass media portrayed the participants as “untainted as they
are with the original sin that has made capitalists and militarists and
establishmentarians out of their fathers.” Speculates if the festival had
continued indefinitely, a social order similar to contemporary society
would have established itself with capitalistic mechanisms, policing
rules, and corrupt citizens.
101. Kiester, Edwin, Jr. “Woodstock and Beyond―Why?” Today’s

Health July 1970 (1970): 20–25, 59–61.
Begins with a discussion on the mythology of the Woodstock Music and

Art Fair and the increase in the number of outdoor rock music festivals.
Notes the real purpose of these gatherings is not for the music, which
just becomes background, but to “validate, reinforce, and illuminate the
culture.” Compares these events to professional conferences where like-
minded people gather. States the breakdown of adequate public health
planning for Woodstock resulted in the creation of a New York state law
governing large gatherings. Discusses the medical care provided at the
festival. Suggests one reason Woodstock and other music festivals have
been relatively peaceful is because law enforcement tends to be lenient
regarding causal drug use, indecent exposure, etc. Offers these events
tend to become nations unto themselves for the duration. Concludes these
types of gatherings have a needed social role in contemporary society.
102. Kimball, Roger. “Charles Reich and America’s Cultural Revolution.”

New Criterion 13 September (1994): 12+. http://www.newcriterion.com/
articles.cfm/Charles-Reich---America-s-cultural-revolution-4992
Marvels at the “ridiculousness” of Woodstock ’94 which was “a

commemoration of the counter-culture that boasted cash machines,
promotional tie-ins with Pepsi Cola, and a security force of twelve
hundred.” Notes the promoters were the same for both the original
Woodstock Music and Art Fair and Woodstock ’94, with the only
difference being the first time around inexperience and bad planning
prevented the festival from becoming an immediate commercial success.
Contends a defining element of the 1969 event was “the arrogant sense of
entitlement that presupposed the very affluence and bourgeois economic
largess that it pretended to reject.” Segues into a detailed commentary
on Charles Reich’s book from 1970, The Greening of America, describing
it as a paean to the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Discusses the initial
impact of, and responses to, the publication. Admits Reich’s predictions
came true, but offers the result was a catastrophe which still resides.
Explains the reasoning through a detailed assessment of the work.
103. Kohl, Paul R. “Looking through a Glass Onion: Rock and Roll as
a Modern Manifestation of Carnival.” Journal of Popular Culture 27.1
(1993): 143–161. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.11256343.x
Uses the medieval European carnival as characterized by Mikhail

Bakhtin to frame a study of 1960s rock music. Carnival is described as the
place where juxtapositions are eliminated and social-political hierarchy
is removed. Claims the major consequence of carnival is a positive
degradation and debasement. Argues that the Beatles contributed
significantly to this realization. Focuses on the album Sgt. Pepper’s
Lonely Hearts Club Band and the dialectic response by Frank Zappa with
the album We’re Only In It For The Money. Asserts that the Monterey
International Pop Festival, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and the
Altamont Speedway concert most literally exemplify the “carnivalesque
tradition.”
104. Kozinets, Robert V. “Can Consumers Escape the Market?

Emancipatory Illuminations from Burning Man.” Journal of Consumer
Research 29.1 (2002): 20–38. https://doi.org/10.1086/339919
Explores “the emancipatory dynamics of the Burning Man project” as

an anti-marketing event. Uses both Disneyland and Woodstock ’99 as
counterpoints. Notes Woodstock ’99 was “nonparticipative and based
upon a mutually exploitative foundation.” Contends the Burning
Man events are ideologically outside the marketplace and free from
related exploitations. Reveals communal practices at Burning Man
which distance “consumption from broader rhetorics of efficiency and
rationality.” Concludes escape from the market must be conceived of as
“temporary and local.”
105. “Laboratory Confirmation of Suspected Substance Abuse at the

1994 Woodstock Music Festival.” Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology
33.5 (1995): 502.
Prints an abstract of a study conducted by the New York Poison Control

Center intended to understand the nature of substance abuse at mass
gatherings. Uses on-site urine samples of persons with altered mental
status taken at Woodstock ’94. Reports 52% of those tested revealed two
or more substances. Concludes at mass gatherings the most critically
ill individuals with altered mental status are likely suffering from
polysubstance abuse.
106. Losavid, Keri. “EMS at Woodstock ‘99.” JEMS: A Journal of

Emergency Medical Services 24.11 (1999): 68–70. http://www.jems.com/
articles/print/volume-35/issue-5/major-incidents/ems-woodstock.html
Explains the medical care provide for Woodstock ’99. Notes the planning
for emergency medical services (EMS) began eight months before the
event with a mandated goal of “zero impact on the local EMS system.”
Describes the use and deployment of 1,200 volunteers, including doctors,
nurses, and EMS personnel. Downplays the violence that occurred. Offers
the lessons learned for future events are to have a dedicated security
force for the medical team and to provide transportation between key
points for all the volunteers (e.g., food tents, supply stations, medical
facilities.
107. McGiverin, Bruce J. “Digital Sound Sampling, Copyright

and Publicity: Protecting Against the Electronic Appropriation of
Sounds.” Columbia Law Review 87.8 (1987): 1723–1746. https://doi.
org/10.2307/1122746
Explores sound sampling as a phenomenon where “perhaps for the first

time a small aspect of a performance both is valuable and can, contrary
to the policies underlying protection of performance value, undercut a
performer’s ability to earn a living.” Footnotes a court case in which the
musician who performed “Mess Call” on his flugelhorn at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair attempted unsuccessfully to prevent the film footage
to be used in a documentary. Concludes that digital sound sampling is a
threat but the current copyright law can handle extreme abuses.
108. “Memories of Woodstock.” Society 27.1 (1989): 2.
Reports succinctly on results from a Gallop poll regarding the public’s

memories of who performed at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Notes nearly all rock music fans under 25 years of age can name Jimi
Hendrix and Janis Joplin, as well as some other groups who have
remained popular since the festival (e.g., Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,
Jefferson Airplane, The Who). Observes rock music fans over the age of
30 are more likely to remember the folk music acts (e.g., Joan Baez, Arlo
Guthrie, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald).
109. Murchison, William. “The Worst Years of our Lives.”

American Spectator 42.8 (2009): 16–21. http://spectator.
org/40806_worst-years-our-lives/
Argues on the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
the damage inflicted by the Woodstock era on institutions and moral
understandings was enormous and lasting. Implies a reason the festival
is mythologized is because history is written by the winners (i.e., the
counterculture baby boomers who came to control the mass media in
the 1970s).
110. Nieburg, H. L. “Agonistics―Rituals of Conflict.” Annals of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science 391 (1970): 56–73. https://
doi.org/10.1177/000271627039100106
Defines “agonistics” as “animal conflict behavior that is playful, symbolic,

or ritualistic” and political. Suggests studying human agonistics is a
legitimate area for theory and analysis, as evidenced by the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair and other mass events of the 1960s. Asserts through
agnostics, members of a social group “discover, learn, and communicate
their place in an ordered set of relationships.” Observes Woodstock, as a
large group event, inverted “the normal sense of danger and the reflexes
of self-protection, liberating people from their usual private roles.”
Offers the festival was the first mass ritual for many of the participants.
Claims Woodstock served as a ritual of ceremony and a rite of passage.
Offers the event changed attitudes and values without conflict, thus
being “redressive, reconciling means of reaffirming loyalties, at times
testing and changing them or offering new ones to replace the old.”
Concludes the counterculture needs to be assimilated to avoid violent
power struggles. Notes the process has already begun with the lowering
of the voting age and reforming the military draft system, among other
actions of the time.
111. Nolan, Kenneth P. “Sorry.” Litigation 36.1 (2009): 55–56, 58.
Starts with a description of the author’s youthful journey to the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Portrays the festival as a coming out
party for a “generous, caring, peaceful” generation, yet at the same time
as a hint of the excessive consumptions to come. Bemoans the evolution
of the Woodstock generation into one equating happiness with material
success. Claims baby boomers “were given a world where America was
admired and loved” and turned it into one “where half the world wants
to blow up the Statue of Liberty.”
112. “Nostalgie De La Boue.” New Criterion 13 September 1994 (1994):

2–3.
Reflects on Woodstock ’94 as the heir to the original Woodstock Music

and Art Fair. Describes as a fairy tale the common notion that in 1969
there was a “spirit of non-violence, anti-materialism, and brotherly love.”
Notes, rather, there were drug overdoses and mindless political slogans.
Regardless, the mythological images from 1969 were invoked to sell
Woodstock ’94 to the public. Observes, in the end, Woodstock ’94 did
mirror the reality of the 1969 event with heavy rains, numerous drug
overdoses, and an underlying profit motive. Concludes by invoking Karl
Marx and suggesting the two events were “a farcical tragedy that came
back as a black comedy.”
113. O’Rourke, John J., and John J. Murphy Jr. “Woodstock ‘94: Fire
Planning for Large Public Events.” Fire Engineering 148.1 (1995): 74+.
http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-148/issue-1/
features/woodstock-94-fire-planning-for-large-public-events.html
Describes the fire prevention planning for Woodstock ’94. Addresses

fire protection for helicopter landing pads and temporary medical care
facilities. Covers such issues as maintaining an adequate water supply,
haz-mat preparations, and fireworks. Mentions difficulties in acquiring
appropriate funding for the mission. Recommends planning begins at
inception and includes access roads and staging a command center far
away from the main stage.
114. Panichas, George A. “The Woodstock in Ourselves.” Modern Age

37.3 (1995): 194–199.
Editorializes Woodstock ’94 as a negative representation of American

culture because “we reveal ourselves through what we choose to
celebrate.” States Woodstock ’94 personified and was emblematic
of “that final phase in the modern age when romanticism slips into
nihilism.” Criticizes the news media, and the New York Times in
particular, for ignoring the larger social implications of the event (a
compilation of the New York Times article on the event is available
at http://woodstockpreservation.org/Gallery/NYTCompilation.html).
Compares the concert attendees to Hitler’s Youth in terms of displaying
similarly threatening attitudes. Concludes the lack of critique in the
mass media means Woodstock ’94 symbolizes spiritual emptiness, social
disorientation, and moral obtuseness.
115. Peterson, Richard A. “The Unnatural History of Rock Festivals:

An Instance of Media Facilitation.” Popular Music & Society 2.2 (1973):
97–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007767308591005
Identifies relevant environmental factors for a proper understanding of

the rock music festival phenomenon. Asserts “a combination of external
economic, political, and social forces” affected negatively the viability
of holding large-scale rock festivals, all fostered with the assistance of
the news media. Claims problems associated with rock festivals are
not necessarily a function of their great sizes. Offers the Monterey
International Pop Festival as the turning point where the potential
for commercial exploitation was demonstrated. Follows by providing
the planning for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example
of promoters acting irresponsibly under concern for making a profit.
Compares and contrast problems associated with urban versus rural
festivals, including Woodstock, suggesting an inverse relationship.
Delves into the ideological bias of the news media when covering
rock music festivals. Explores the ways in which the legal system has
been used to suppress festivals, through the courts, legislatures, and
executive offices.
116. Rahman, Ahmad A. “The Million Man March: A Black

Woodstock?” The Black Scholar 26.1 (1996): 41–44. https://doi.org/10.10
80/00064246.1996.11430771
Discusses unfavorable similarities between the Million Man March

(1995) and the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (1969). Begins with the
premise Woodstock has become no more that “a signpost on the way
toward assimilation into white privilege and produced no lasting social
or economic changes.” Notes attending the Woodstock concert conveyed
that one was opposed to the Vietnam War, favored the legalization
of marijuana, and supported the Civil Rights Movement. Claims
the Woodstock festival did not, however, develop into a permanent
counterculture movement due to a lack of leaders willing to establish
an ideology and transform the energy of the event into political action.
Argues the Million Man March parallels Woodstock in being an apex
of a national voice suggesting that if it follows the same history as
Woodstock, it will “reveal the limitations of cultural nationalism as a
guiding political philosophy for bringing about social change.”
117. Rauchway, Eric. “Santa Only Brought Me the Blues: Family

Holidays, Old and New.” Reviews in American History 30.1 (2002): 98–105.
https://doi.org/10.1353/rah.2002.0017
Utilizes Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of a syncretic event. States
Hendrix both asserted his “Americanness” and maintained his ethnicity
“by reinterpreting a dominant cultural custom in his own idiom.”
Contrasts the 1969 festival with later incarnations (i.e., Woodstock ’94,
Woodstock ’99) by offering that the original event was a holiday from
the normal social order while the later ones were more carnivalesque.
118. Reeves, Richard. “Mike Lang (Groovy Kid from Brooklyn) Plus
John Roberts (Unlimited Capital) Equals Woodstock.” New York Times
Magazine September 7 (1969): 34–35+.
Profiles John Roberts who provided the capital to fund the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Discusses his relationship with Michael Lang and the
other two creators of the company Woodstock Ventures. Includes some
biographical information on Roberts. Delves into the finances behind the
event. Quotes Roberts expressing hope of making up the losses on the
festival through the release of the motion picture Woodstock. Includes a
sidebar describing what it was like to be at Woodstock as a reporter.
119. Rodrick, Stephen. “Woodstock Postcard: Gone to Pot.” New

Republic 211.10 (1994): 9.
Comments on the overt commercialism observed at Woodstock ’94.
120. Russo, Elena. “1966: Morning in Baltimore.” Romanic Review

101.1/2 (2010): 167–189.
Draws a parallel between the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 and
a symposium on “the languages of criticism and the sciences of man”
held at Johns Hopkins University in 1966. The symposium included
invited French nihilists. States both events were portrayed as barbarian
invasions and both events continue to be discussed forty years later.
121. Salgado, Richard P. “Regulating a Video Revolution.” Yale Law &

Policy Review 7.2 (1989): 516–537. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/
cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=ylpr
Examines retail videotape rentals of motion pictures, a relatively new

phenomenon in 1989. Observes how children may now have access to
movies intended for adults, thus creating pressure for legislatures “to
regulate which videotapes may be distributed and to whom.” Refers
to a court case surrounding a statute restricting access for anyone
under the age of eighteen to the motion picture Woodstock. Notes the
“court struck down the statute on first amendment grounds as a prior
restraint” because judicial supervision is “essential to the determination
of whether particular speech is unprotected for the purpose of issuing a
prior restraint.” Reports the court found fault with the judgment made
by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) using unknown
standards and procedures. Concludes that while legislatures may draft
statutes classifying some videos inappropriate for minors, they cannot
abdicate the responsibility to “private organizations which are virtually
immune from judicial scrutiny,” such as MPAA.
122. Samuels, David. “Rock is Dead: Sex, Drugs, and Raw Sewage at
Woodstock ‘99.” Harper’s Magazine November (1999): 69–82.
Attempts to make sense, in some detail, of the conditions and attitudes

that led to the riots at Woodstock ’99. Follows Michael Lang during the
lead up to and through the event. Shows the festival unfolding through
the perspective of one of the organizers, John Scher. Describes the
concert as a “prepackaged Information-Age happening.” Concludes the
riots were the result of something greater than the sum of the parts (e.g.,
poor planning, greed, personal irresponsibility). Offers America has yet
to recover from the breakdown in society which occurred three decades
early and was symbolized by the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
123. Sisk, John P. “The Young and the Irreverent.” Georgia Review 43.3
(1989): 447–457.
Invokes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of a puerilist

society in which childish behavior is observed in adults. States society
corrupted by puerilism exhibits elders who “are inclined to take without
question the expressed or implied social criticism of the young.” Suggests
Woodstock participants expressed ideas about “sex, social and political
arrangements, education, interpersonal relations, and war.” States the
crowd at Woodstock was, in actuality, possessed by these ideas rather
than having ownership over them. Suggests Woodstock represented

nothing more than a temporary irreverence, an example of secular
society worshiping youth.
124. Smedinghoff, Gerry. “Deconstructing the Conservative Mind.” Vital

Speeches of the Day 71.8 (2005): 234–242. http://www.gerrysmedinghoff.
com/articles/DeconstructingTheConservativeMind.pdf
Prints a speech by the author given to the Economic Supper Club of Phoenix,
Arizona (January 19, 2005). Declares time has proven the premise of the
book The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk to be “a self-delusional lie.”
Offers the German youth of the 1930s and the American counterculture
youth of the 1960s as the “best example of Karl Marx’s dictum that history
repeats itself: first as a tragedy, then as a farce.” Represents these two
generations via the motion pictures Triumph of Will and Woodstock in
which documented are mirror cohorts of youth expressing immature
emotions and “shouting the same mindless slogans.”
125. Sobieraj, Sarah, and Heather Laube. “Confronting the Social

Context of the Classroom: Media Events, Shared Cultural Experience,
and Student Response.” Teaching Sociology 29.4 (2001): 463–470. https://
doi.org/10.2307/1318947 http://as.tufts.edu/sociology/sites/all/themes/
asbase/assets/documents/sobierajSocialcontext.pdf
Asserts “student response to course content is contingent upon many

factors, including the social context in which they interact with class
materials.” Conveys a personal example of teaching on the topic of
pornography and the use of a Time magazine article reporting on rape
at Woodstock ’99. Relates students were focused more on the concept of
blame being placed on the music group Korn, specifically mentioned in
the article, than on the cause of the public rapes. Explores explanations
for this reaction. Suggests reasons in light of recent debates on violence in
media. Concludes teachers of sociology need to be mindful of the social
context within the classroom in order to take advantage of important
teaching moments.
126. Stahl, Gerry. “Attuned to being: Heideggerian Music in

Technological Society.” Boundary 2 4.2 (1976): 635–664. https://doi.
org/10.2307/302157 http://gerrystahl.net/publications/interpretations/
attuned.pdf
Posits contemporary art must embody a state of technology “in order to

criticize its contemporary social form.” Asserts it is necessary to merge
Martin Heidegger’s views on art with Karl Marx’s critical theory on
capitalism. Applies Heidegger to a conceptualization of electronic music.

Insists “art must relate to the historical context of its desired audience
and appropriately interpret the truth of its own medium.” Offers as a
prime example Jimi Hendrix’s rendering of The Star Spangled Banner at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Suggests the performance serves
to comment, without words, on the United States involvement in the
Vietnam War and Hendrix is “interpreting an historical text in a manner
suited to a contemporary audience.”
127. Torn, Jon Leon. “Taking Public Address Seriously: A Graduate

Student’s Response.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4.3 (2001): 515–524. https://
doi.org/10.1353/rap.2001.0055
Conceptualizes rock music as a combination of “the transcendence over

human suffering that exemplified the blues, the truth-telling emotional
power of black gospel, and the ‘authentic’ social critique of folk music.”
Notes the 1960s saw the rise of the musician as politician. Calls for
more public discourse on the politics of rock music culture given the
continuing “gender and racial politics of male sexual license and cultural
appropriation” still in evidence. Cites the rioting and rapes at Woodstock
’99 as making evident a lack of sustained progress in this area.
128. Vider, Stephen. “Rethinking Crowd Violence: Self-

Categorization Theory and the Woodstock 1999 Riot.” Journal
for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34.2 (2004): 141–166. https://doi.
org/10.1111/j.0021-8308.2004.00240.x
Evaluates a cognitive model of collective behavior known as Self-

Categorization Theory (SCT) in order to understand crowd violence,
using the riots at Woodstock ’99 because they have been described as
both “social protest” and “irrational delinquency.” Specifically, examines
“whether social identity was a significant factor in the emergence and
spread of violence.” Describes the physical environment and conditions
at Woodstock ’99. Explores motivations behind the rioting, including the
use of illegal drugs. Offers there was a social purpose to the violence and
some claimed the rioting was a “response to inflated prices, inadequate
sanitation, and otherwise poor conditions.” Notes much of the action
was aimed towards property representative of the promoters and other
commercial entities as opposed to other individual concert attendees.
Questions whether rioting was caused by a sense of economic injustice or
was extreme commercialism simply used as a justification. Suggests the
reality was a “behavioral unity with cognitive diversity.” Invokes Freud
to describe the crowd’s psychological response to violent messages
emanating from the stage. Claims SCT fails to account for the “attraction
and excitement” of joining a violent crowd. Compares and contrasts the
Woodstock ’99 events to a riot at Ohio State University in November

2002 following a football game, suggesting tradition as a source of
behavioral norms, including crowd violence. Claims the news media
helps to establish ritualized memory, as in the mythology of rebellion
created from the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair held in 1969.
129. Zito, Jack S. “Music Medicine.” MLO: Medical Laboratory

Observer 32.2 (2000): 40–44. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Music+
medicine.-a060014062
Describes from a first-person perspective the management of medical

services provided by Centrex Clinical Laboratories at Woodstock ’99.
Discusses staff coverage, drug-screening arrangements, and supplies.
Notes majority of patients were treated for dehydration, drug overdoses,
and mosh pit injuries.
Proceedings
130. Cunha, Victoria. “The Medium is the (Rock) Message: A Mythic
Comparison of Woodstock and Live Aid.” Annual Meeting of the Speech
Communication Association. November 3–6, 1988, New Orleans, LA.
Seeks to discover a relationship between promotional media used for

significant events and the nature of the post-event mythology. Compares
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair with the 1985 Live Aid concert by
examining the ways in which the events were organized, promoted, and
executed. Although Live Aid attempted to capitalized on the Woodstock
mythology, it ultimately failed due to generational and philosophical
differences.
Websites
131. Mathewes-Green, Frederica. “Woodstock II: Regeneration Gap.”
1994. http://frederica.com/writings/woodstock-ii-regeneration-gap.html
Uses the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair and the subsequent
Woodstock ’94 to comment on the differing values of the two generations
(baby boomers vs. Generation X) served by the events. Notes the flaws
associated with both generations and observes Generation X has “no
defining passion, no idealism, no role except consumer.” Explores the
current fascination with Charles Manson, citing the appropriation of his
cult-like status by Generation X musicians (Guns N’ Roses, Evan Dando,

and Trent Reznor). Describes Joe Cocker’s performances at Woodstock
’94. Comments on the violent stage antics of Nine Inch Nails and Blind
Melon at the same event. Concludes the original Woodstock gave society
“sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” while Woodstock ’94 added “rage, contempt,
and meaninglessness.
132. Sanjek, David. “Woodstock”, in Encyclopedia of American Studies.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Describes in a few words the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from a
sociological perspective. States Woodstock was a manifestation of
increasing corporate investment in the 1960s counterculture. Claims
“large-scale musical gatherings such as Woodstock exist simultaneously
in an industrial and an ideological dimension.” Asserts, therefore, events
such as Woodstock force the exploration of a generation’s “aims and
aspirations.” Touches on the failed attempts to “recapture the transient
sensibilities” of 1969’s Woodstock event through Woodstock ‘94 and
Woodstock ’99, noting popular music by then had become a consumer
good as opposed to a “road to egalitarian aspirations.” Questions where
contemporary youth can express their idealized futures.
Videos
133. The Sixties: The Years that Shaped a Generation. Paramount Home
Entertainment, 2005. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUc2eLe-ruI
Features interviews with the notable persons from the 1960s, including:
Daniel Ellsberg, Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Arlo Guthrie, Henry
Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Robert McNamara, Ed Messe, and Bobby
Seale. Includes discussion of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and
the Altamont Speedway concert. Also covers the Vietnam War, the
Civil Rights Movement, counterculture politics and associated events.
Includes archival footage.
Photo by Mark Goff, image in the public domain. Wikimedia, https://commons.
wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodstock_August_15,_1969.jpg
History
Books
134. Alan, Carter. Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 2013.
Chronicles the history of radio station WBCN (Boston). Reveals briefly

the role and activities of WBCN during Woodstock ’94. States the radio
station’s experience at the concert played a major role in transforming
WBCN from an AOR format to modern rock. Observes how Woodstock
‘94 served as a large test market for the demographics WBCN was
attempting to target. Foreword by Steven Tyler.
135. Anson, Robert Sam. Gone Crazy and Back Again: The Rise and Fall of
the ‘Rolling Stone’ Generation. New York: Doubleday, 1981.
Provides a history of Rolling Stone magazine and an examination of

its cultural significance. Focuses on Jann Wenner who founded the
publication in 1967 with $7,500 in borrowed capital. Recounts the
highlights of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, noting “the moment
is beyond comprehension.” Focuses on the peaceful nature of the event
and the politeness extended to the local community by the attendees.
Mentions Wenner was startled by the festival. Claims he did not think
the event would be successful by any measurement. States many
journalists covering the festival reported it as a new beginning, signaling
a recognition of Wenner’s assertions of rock music representing an
anthem of new values.
136. Blake, Mark. Pretend You’re in a War: The Who and the Sixties. London:
Aurum Press, 2014.
Provides the most detailed account of The Who’s experience at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Describes how the band demanded
payment before taking the stage. Offers thoughts on the group having to
perform at the festival immediately following Sly and the Family Stone’s
set. Recounts the incident of Abbie Hoffman attempting to take the stage
during The Who’s performance and Pete Townshend intervening by
knocking him off the stage.
137. Blelock, Weston, and Julia Blelock, eds. Roots of the 1969 Woodstock
Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock.” Woodstock, NY: WoodstockArts,
2009.
Explains why the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was named after the
town of Woodstock, New York, even though the concert took place
in Bethel, New York. Presents the transcript from a panel discussion
(August 9, 2008) revealing how the concept for the festival developed
from, and was shaped by, the legacy of art and music events associated
with the community of Woodstock. Panelist included Michael Lang,
Woodstock resident and one of the promoters of the 1969 Woodstock
concert; Jean Young, co-author with Lang on the book Woodstock Festival
Remembered; plus others knowledgeable about the local music scene in
the late 1960s. Delves into the town of Woodstock’s early arts and crafts
tradition and its history of weekend-long musical concerts. Includes
numerous photographs and maps.
138. Bordowitz, Hank. Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of

Creedence Clearwater Revival. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007.
Presents the story of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Describes

how the band was signed early on, in April 1969, to play at the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Suggests the group was used as leverage
by the festival promoters to attract other acts. Quotes John Fogerty on
his disappointment of playing the gig at 3:00 a.m. with the audience
mostly asleep. Explains Creedence Clearwater Revival’s absence from
the motion picture Woodstock due to Fogerty’s displeasure with their
performance. Notes Fogerty also kept the film footage of the band out of
the twenty-fifth anniversary director’s cut of the film.
139. Brant, Marley. Join Together: Forty Years of the Rock Music Festival.
New York: Backbeat Books, 2008.
Surveys the major rock music festivals held between 1967 and 2007.
Attempts to portray the events as having made important contributions to
society. Asserts the Woodstock Music and Art Festival came to “represent
a massive sociological transformation and define a generation.” Provides
background on how Joel Rosenmann, John Roberts, Artie Kornfeld, and
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Michael Lang (the four promoters of the original Woodstock festival)

came to know each other and to eventually form Woodstock Ventures.
Offers insight on securing a site for the event from farmer/businessman
Max Yasgur. Mentions some of the fees negotiated to secure performers.
Explains how the festival came together as a series of last minute activities
and the consequences regarding traffic control, food, and security
arrangements. Includes details on many of the on-stage and behind-
the-scenes issues surrounding the performances and the impromptu
scheduling of the opening act, Richie Havens. Incorporates the ways in
which adverse weather affected the various acts and their sets. Covers
some of the artists who did not play at Woodstock and the reasons why.
Quotes the overall positive reflections on the festival by some of the
performers. Delves into post-event financial issues facing the promoters
and the eventual success of the motion picture Woodstock. Concludes
with a discussion on the impact of the event on the music industry,
performers, and subsequent music festivals. Includes sections devoted
to Woodstock ’79, Woodstock ’89, Woodstock ’94, and Woodstock ’99.
140. Brown, Tony, ed. Jimi Hendrix: In His Own Words. London:
Omnibus, 1994.
Collects excerpts from interviews with Jimi Hendrix. Notes Hendrix

was “always very articulate and unafraid to express his views.” Quotes
selectively Hendrix’s comments on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Hendrix mentions extensively the non-violence at the festival and
extrapolates it to the larger counterculture; bemoans the lack of access
to music festivals for inner city youth; and recommends future events
should include a variety of activities to occupy the audience, suggesting
there be films, dances, art, exhibits, and plays. Comments on his
rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the festival. Other topics include
his time spent in the U.S. Army, songwriting, and politics.
141. Carson, David A. Grit, Noise, & Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock
‘n’ Roll. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2005. https://doi.
org/10.3998/mpub.93680
Chronicles the Detroit music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Describes
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from the perspective of the White
Panthers and the “Free John Sinclair” movement. Tells the story of
representatives from the White Panthers traveling to the festival and
connecting with Abbie Hoffman. Sheds insight into Hoffman’s ill-
fated attempt to radicalize the audience from the stage. Reveals actual
roadblocks were established to catch hippies with illegal drugs leaving
the event.
142. Cooke, John Byrne. On the Road with Janis Joplin. New York: Berkley
Books, 2014.
Describes the author’s experience as road manager for Janis Joplin.

Details difficulties of getting Joplin to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
due to the heavy traffic. Describes the helicopter ride from the Holiday
Inn to the festival site. Provides insights to backstage happenings. Draws
comparisons between 1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival and
1969’s Woodstock, both of which the author attended.
143. Curtis, Jim. Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954–1984.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1987.
Utilizes Marshall McLuhan’s work to organize the history of rock

music into three eras. Subdivides each era into two parts, innovation
and assimilation. Stresses the political environment in the second era,
1964–1974. Discusses the relationship forged between popular culture
and high culture while exploring the late 1960s counterculture politics
of music. Illustrates the redefining of what it meant to be an American
by citing Jimi Hendrix’s rendering of The Star Spangled Banner at the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Discusses the creation and undermining
of the Woodstock mythology of peacefulness and gentleness. Draws a
connection among the Charles Manson murders, Woodstock, and the
Altamont Speedway concert. Points to the contradictions between the
counterculture ethos of “we are brothers and sisters” and everyone
“do your own thing.” Claims the Woodstock festival illustrates a key
principle of McLuhan’s, that “processes are not monolithic, and that
they can reverse themselves.” Delves into the religious parallels of
Woodstock, noting the performance by Sly Stone was reflective of
black gospel music given he invoked a call-and-response during the set.
Suggests Woodstock provided a “lasting spirituality.”
144. Davidson, Sara. Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.
Presents the stories of how three women, including the author, lived
through the counterculture experience of the 1960s. Comments in a few
words about the author’s backstage experience at the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Comments on the odor of 500,000 attendees (“rotting fruit,
urine, sweat, incense”). Reports the author wrote an article about the
event for The Globe.
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145. DeGroot, Gerard J. The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History

of a Disorderly Decade. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Offers a history of the 1960s from an atypical perspective suggesting the

decade lacked a “coherent logic.” Defies convention by examining the
1960s in a nonlinear fashion. Presents sixty-seven topics lacking a single
narrative in order to demonstrate a more realistic and less romanticized
portrayal of history. Describes the origins of the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair as a money-making scheme. States the artists performing at
the festival did so only due to offers of being well paid. Discusses the
financial aspects of the event, but notes the post-festival mythology recast
the concert as the “perfect ending to the Heavenly Decade,” representing
“the epitome of freedom.” Suggests the mythology sustains itself because
it symbolizes sentiment over a brief moment in time that was quickly
destroyed by commercialism. Hints the following disastrous Altamont
Speedway concert was doomed because “so many people thought
Altamont was going to be like Woodstock, even though Woodstock was
not really like Woodstock.”
146. Draper, Robert. The Rolling Stone Story. Edinburgh, Scotland:

Mainstream, 1990.
Offers a history of Rolling Stone magazine, with a focus on the

individuals who helped craft the publication across time. Reports on
the experience of three Rolling Stone reporters (Jan Hodenfield, Greil
Marcus, Baron Wolman) attending the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Provides a perspective on the festival from the impressions of
counterculture journalists. Comments on the traffic and the weather.
Offers the threesome came to the realization they were at an event that
“defied historical precedent” and was “a triumph of the ordinary — a
celebration of, by and for the masses.” Notes Hodenfield’s interpretation
of Jimi Hendrix’s rendering of The Star Spangled Banner as being a clarion
call.
147. Evans, Mike, and Paul Kingsbury, eds. Woodstock: Three Days that
Rocked the World. New York: Sterling, 2009.
Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art
Fair with a massive amount of photography accompanied by informative
blocks of text and quotes. Starts with presenting in snippets the cultural
events that allowed the Woodstock festival to be born (e.g., Civil
Rights Movement, Vietnam War, Democratic Convention in Chicago
1968, hippies, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Monterey

International Pop Festival). Continues with the events surrounding the
conceptualization and realization of Woodstock. Devotes the majority
of the work to the unfolding of the three days in August 1969, with a
presentation of each performer’s set in the same order of appearance as
at the event. Mentions the reasons some of the artists who were expected
to play at Woodstock did not make it. Includes a section on the aftermath
(the media, the film, the money trail, and some subsequent music
festivals). Ends with a “where are they now” piece and a discography.
Contains annotated timelines (pre-Woodstock, from 1954 to 1969; post-
Woodstock, from 1969 to 1975) and a bibliography. Foreword by Martin
Scorsese.
148. Evers, Alf. The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1972.
Details the history of New York’s Catskills Mountains. Suggests some of

the residents of Sullivan County, site of the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair, were receptive to hosting the festival as a means of shedding its
“Borscht Belt image.” Provides a local perspective on the festival. Claims
during Woodstock many of the residents “lived in fear, cut off from the
rest of their world by a restless sea of 400,000 young people.” Notes after
the event, Bethel, New York, citizens had the town supervisor removed
from office. Reports the town’s Postmaster, Richard Joyner, lost twenty
pounds during the three-day weekend. Explains how the festival came
to be named after the New York town of Woodstock, relating the
community’s history as an artists’ colony. States one result of the concert
was the ability of local resorts to more easily promote the region.
149. Evers, Alf. Woodstock: History of an American Town. Woodstock, NY:

Overlook Press, 1987.
Details the long history of Woodstock, New York, including its evolution
into an artists’ community. Mentions concisely how Woodstock Ventures
managed a “brazen theft of the town’s name” for the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Notes many of those hoping to attend the festival ended
up first arriving at this town only to be told the event was sixty miles
away. Offers insight into relationships among the community, tourism,
and the hippie culture of the 1960s.
150. Fornatale, Pete. Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock. New
York: Touchstone, 2009.
Represents scores of first-person accounts of the Woodstock Music and

Art Fair, focusing mainly on the music and musicians while placing
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the festival within a cultural context. Contends Woodstock redefined

“the culture, the country, and the core values of an entire generation.”
Organizes chapters chronologically by each performance. Describes
the various narratives as “blind men and women trying to describe this
behemoth based on the part of the body that we touched.” Invoking
the Rashomon effect, contends that despite differing experiences and
descriptions of the same weekend in August 1969, some of which are
“wildly divergent” and “diametrically opposed,” it is true “each account
can still be plausible” because each person’s experience is the reality of
the event for them. References Joseph Campbell, asserting “Woodstock
made us feel the rapture of being alive.” Foreword by Country Joe
McDonald.
151. Francese, Carl, and Richard S. Sorrell. From Tupelo to Woodstock:

Youth, Race, and Rock-and-Roll in America, 1954–1969. Dubuque, Iowa:
Kendall/Hunt, 1995.
Contributes little new to the subject matter, but this textbook does
place the Woodstock Music and Art Fair within the context of the social
history of American youth during the 1950s and 1960s. States the festival
demonstrated one of the “central tenets” of the time, “civilization was
evil and people (young ones, at least) would behave better in some
primal state of nature.” Mentions briefly as an epilogue the Woodstock
’94 and Woodstock ’99 concerts.
152. Friedlander, Paul. Rock and Roll: A Social History. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 2006.
Chronicles the first fifty years of rock music. Mentions Woodstock ’94
was intended to be a marriage and celebration of two eras, the 1960s and
the 1990s, with the former representing the mythology of community
while the latter represented unashamed capitalism. Describes the rock
music festival environment as it existed in the 1990s (e.g., Lilith Fair).
Describes the violence at Woodstock ’99.
153. Gelfand, H. Michael. Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval
Academy, 1949–2000. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807877470_gelfand
Recounts the most recent fifty year history (1949–2000) of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Explores the people and events
in relation to the Naval Academy’s attempt to transform itself during
changing times in order to remain relevant to midshipmen. Relates
pithily a report from some students who attended the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Notes “one thing that the weekend proved was the
Midshipmen are human and can get along with civilian college students,
as long as the civilians do not know they are Midshipmen.” Includes a
Foreword by Senator John McCain.
154. Gerdes, Louise I., ed. Perspectives on Modern History: Woodstock.

Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012.
Aims toward high school and college students by presenting an anthology

of twenty-three edited reprints from a wide range of original sources.
Organized into three sections: historical background, controversies, and
personal narratives. Introduces the topic through an exploration of the
significance of the event. Notes the cultural symbolism is “perplexing
to many” considering the numerous conflicting stories of what
happened during those three days in August 1969. Questions some of
the mythology surrounding the event, pointing out “the festival was free
because of exigent circumstances, not benevolence.” Contends “what
actually happened at Woodstock is less important that what it means.”
Includes a chronology of relevant Woodstock-related events from 1966
through 2009.
155. Gittell, Myron. Woodstock ‘69: Three Days of Peace, Music & Medical
Care. Kiamesha Lake, NY: Load N Go Press, 2009.
Recreates, from “sketchy” documentation and the memories of others,

the numerous problems faced by medical personnel at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Observes that more than 3,000 attendees required
medical care, thus making the festival “one of the significant disaster
scene in modern America.” Discusses the preparations and volunteers,
the role of the Hog Farm, and the use of helicopters to airlift patients
from the site. Reprints numerous primary documents related to the
medical conditions at the event. Includes a statement issued immediately
following the event by Max Yasgur, owner of the farm where the festival
was held, stating if the festival attendees “could turn such adverse
conditions, filled with the possibility of disaster, riot, looting and
catastrophe into three days of peace and music, then perhaps there is
hope” for a brighter future. The author, now a Registered Nurse, was
at the concert but only as a spectator and not as a medical professional.
156. Green, Jonathon. All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998.
Traces the rise and fall of the 1960s counterculture. Refers in brief to the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a paradigm spawning the concept of
a “Woodstock nation,” a fantasized alternative culture based on a single
“supreme counter-culture feelgood event.”
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157. Harris, Craig. The Band: Pioneers of Americana Music. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Examines the influences on the music made by The Band as well as

the group’s impact on the popular music of their time. Looks at The
Band’s appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Provides some
background with quotes from Michael Lang, one of the promoters. Lang
describes the difficulties in securing a site for festival. Artie Kornfeld,
another promoter, gives insight into how he and Lang evolved the
concept for the event. Robbie Robertson articulates why the Woodstock
concert was not the best venue for highlighting The Band’s style.
158. Havers, Richard, and Richard Evans. Woodstock Chronicles. New

York: Chartwell Books, 2009.
Contains information on the performers at the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair, including short biographies, brief descriptions of their
Woodstock performances, and summaries of the “Woodstock effect” on
their careers. Includes a brief history of music festivals leading up to
Woodstock and provides a festival chronology listing the performers
at each event. Itemizes the amount each Woodstock artist was paid for
their appearance. Heavily illustrated with photographs of performers
and artifacts, many not from the event itself. Ends with sections on the
aftermath, the albums, the film, and Woodstock ‘94.
159. Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Defining Moments:

Woodstock. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2013.
Provides an extensive accounting of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

Targets middle and high school students. Includes a narrative overview,
short biographies of ten key individuals (e.g., Michael Lang, Max
Yasgur), and selections from primary sources (e.g., Ayn Rand’s 1969
essay “Apollo and Dionysus”), thus making this work a comprehensive
launching point for anyone researching the phenomenon. Places
Woodstock within the larger context of 1960s America (e.g., Civil Rights
Movement, Vietnam War, rise of the counterculture) and the role of
music in shaping society during that time period (e.g., Bob Dylan, The
Beatles). Examines how the festival influenced an evolving popular
music culture “both as a business and as an art form.” Explores the
“enduring symbolic significance” of Woodstock. Presents a glossary of
people, places, and vocabulary. Also includes some photographs and a
chronological timeline of relevant events from 1945 (the beginning of a
strong economic growth in the U.S.) to 1999 (Woodstock ’99). Contains
the lyrics to Joni Mitchell’s song Woodstock. “Defining Moments” is a
series of books by Omnigraphics designed to highlight significant events

from American history.
160. Hoskyns, Barney. Across the Great Divide: The Band and America.
New York: Hyperion, 1993.
Presents a history of The Band, from 1957 through 1992. Describes the
group’s experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Comments on
the reception of their performance. Notes the band’s manager, Albert
Grossman, refused to allow any of his acts at the festival (i.e., The Band,
Janis Joplin, and Blood, Sweat & Tears) to be included in the motion
picture Woodstock or on the album soundtrack. Suggest the motivation
was at first financial, then vindictive towards John Roberts because of
his refusal to sell the film rights to Grossman. Speculates on the career
trajectory of The Band had they been included in the media products.
Includes a discography.
161. Hoskyns, Barney. Beneath the Diamond Sky: Haight Ashbury 1965–
1970. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Presents a history of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury hippie culture

of the 1960s. Contends the tenor of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
was established by the acts from San Francisco. Claims although Janis
Joplin and the Grateful Dead performed poorly at the festival, sets by
Sly and the Family Stone and Santana gave “acid rock the multiracial,
Afro-Latin-American jolt it needed.”
162. Jahn, Mike. Rock: From Elvis Presley to the Rolling Stones. New York:
Quadrangle, 1973.
Attempts to convey a “complete overview of the rock age.” Errors on the

side of including only information about artists who contributed to the
ongoing development of the genre, as opposed to those who “simply
made money playing it.” Offers the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as
the zenith of the youth culture movement of the 1960s, after which “the
downhill path was swift and straight.” Attributes part of the Woodstock
phenomenon to the “back to nature” movement and the growth in
popularity of country rock music as evidenced by Bob Dylan’s Nashville
Skyline album, as well as recordings by Joan Baez, The Byrds, and Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young. Quotes an article from Rolling Stone magazine
declaring Woodstock had given birth to a “new nation.” Mentions
the audience-engaging performance by Sly and the Family Stone as a
highlight of the festival in which the communal aspects of the event were
most realized. Includes a selective discography of representative music.
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163. Joseph, Peter. Good Times: An Oral History of America in the Nineteen
Sixties. New York: Charterhouse, 1973.
Based on Stud Turkel’s Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression,
the author “attempts to recapture the tone and the texture” of the 1960s, if
not exact facts and precise recollections. Quotes Jerry Garcia’s comments
on the Grateful Dead’s experience at the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Notes there were too many distractions for the band to play very
well (e.g., the weather, the crowds, backstage problems). Also includes
comments from Zodiac (Michael Alan Carl), providing an attendee’s
perspective from one of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters.
164. Lifton, Robert Jay. Home from the War. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1973.
Investigates the personal impact on veterans of having been soldiers

during the Vietnam War. Claims the Woodstock Music and Art Fair had
“a very special meaning for young Americans who fought in Vietnam.”
Relates how one veteran gained insight into “ways of living” from
watching performances by Joan Baez and Richie Havens in the motion
picture Woodstock, specifically by understanding how to enable one’s
ability to live their convictions.
165. Makower, Joel. Woodstock: The Oral History. 40th anniversary ed.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009.
Details the Woodstock Music and Art Fair through scores of interviews
conducted in 1988 with “producers, performers, doctors, cops, neighbors,
shopkeepers, carpenters, electricians, lawyers, journalists, filmmakers,
and an assemblage of just plain folks who, by design or circumstance,
became part of the event.” Notes a common thread in which most people
interviewed seem to date their life using the festival as a major milestone.
Topics range from art and politics to life and death; and from generosity
and greed to enlightenment and disenchantment. Foreword by festival
producers Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman. “Who’s Who” section
contains brief descriptions of key participants and their relevance to the
concert. Includes a detailed subject index.
166. Manchester, William. The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History
of America, 1932–1972. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1974.
Focuses succinctly on the relative positive outcome of the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair regarding the relatively peaceful August weekend
despite rain, traffic jams, poor sanitary conditions, and lack of food, water,
and medical supplies. Notes the success came mainly from members of
the counterculture in the form of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the
Hog Farm commune providing essential services. Claims the festival
was a “strong symbol of generational unity.”
167. Marcus, Daniel. Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and the
Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2004.
Examines nostalgia and its effect on the narrative of history. Contends

popular culture images have been used to reshape memories to fit
political agendas. Points to the use by news media in the 1980s of film
clips from the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair as clichéd symbolism
to quickly characterize the 1960s. Observes the “Sixties increasingly came
to be represented by some of its most extreme and dramatic moments.”
Notes “events like Woodstock remained as symbols of another age, a
measure of the distance the nation had traveled since the 1960s.” Claims
the media portrayed the 1960s as a hedonism that gave birth to the
societal problems of the 1980s, such as widespread illegal drug use and
sexually transmitted diseases. Considers the news media in the 1980s
was often critical of the 1960s, yet the accompanying images may have
been communicating an idealized, communal harmony.
168. Marcus, Greil. Woodstock. San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow, 1969.
Chronicles, in detail, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Captures

the event immediately after it happened and, thus, presents a unique
perspective from that moment in time. Observes the festival “defied
categories and conventional perceptions.” Describes both the music
and the chaotic experiences of the attendees (e.g., problems with traffic,
first-aid provision, drugs, food, sanitation, and weather). Comments on
many of the performances. Notes how at Woodstock “thousands were
able to do things that would ordinarily be considered rebellious” but
were, instead, done for pure fun. Offers numerous black and white
photographs by Baron Wolman, Joseph Sia, and Mark Vargas; a cover
photo by Jim Marshall; and an overall design by Robert Kingsbury.
169. McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the
Grateful Dead. New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
Presents a detailed and extensive history of The Grateful Dead. Describes

the music group’s performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as
“one of their worst ever.” Notes problems with both the stormy weather
and the electrical grounding on the stage resulted in band members
being shocked from the microphones. Mentions the group’s members
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were intimidated by the size of the event and unprepared to deliver the
spectacular show required of such a large audience. Provides a brief
description of how the festival came to be organized. Describes the living
arrangements for the festival performers at the nearby Holiday Inn.
Sheds light on the backstage interactions and behind-the-scenes dealings.
States The Grateful Dead were paid $2,250 for their performance.
170. Perone, James. Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Art Fair.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Presents information on all three official Woodstock festivals,

concentrating heavily on the 1969 event. Uses the first half of the book
to publish four essays. The first chapter covers other music festivals of
the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Monterey International
Pop Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Isle of Wight, Altamont Speedway,
Newport Folk Festival, Concert for Bangladesh, and even the Beatles’
rooftop concert from January 1969. The second and largest chapter
discusses in detail the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Explores the
organization and planning, the demographics of the audience, use of
illegal drugs, and, quite substantially, the music. Explains how the event
originated as a plan to raise funds in order to build a recording studio
in Woodstock, New York. Describes Woodstock Ventures as “Andy
Hardy meets Rube Goldberg.” Presents a statistical breakdown of the
attendees, such as 55% male and 95% white. Offers some thoughts on the
legacy of the original Woodstock event. The next two chapters examine
in similar ways Woodstock ’94 and Woodstock ’99 respectively. Delves
into some detail regarding the violence at Woodstock ’99. The remainder
of the work comprises the encyclopedic section, probably the most
exhaustive attempt to-date from any publisher. Entries consist mainly
of individuals, but also address many other items such as “nudity,”
“helicopters,” and “yoga exercises.” Appendices include set lists and
the identification of relevant recordings and films. Closes by presenting
a lengthy bibliography with brief annotations, including numerous
popular magazine articles covering all three Woodstock events.
171. Pollock, Bruce. When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960s. New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.
Offers personal stories from individuals who played some part in the
evolution of rock music during the 1960s. Marty Balin of Jefferson
Airplane recalls playing poker at the Holiday Inn prior to be helicoptered
to the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Essra Mohawk claims
she was scheduled to perform at Woodstock but was unable to take the
stage for a variety of reasons. Recounts the story of how Bob Dylan was
rumored to possibly appear at the festival. States Woodstock was “more
discomfiting than euphoric, except in retrospect.” Describes the event as

the last showing of the counterculture revolution. Paints John Sebastian’s
role at Woodstock as being the ideal representative of the hippie
movement. Notes Sebastian was not originally scheduled to perform
and took the stage under the influence of drugs. Quotes Sebastian
commenting on how commercialism devoured and “cannibalized a
lot of things that could have happened out of Woodstock.” Reports
Sebastian regrets his weak performance at the festival, especially since it
was filmed and recorded for posterity.
172. Reynolds, Susan, ed. Woodstock Revisited: 50 Far Out, Groovy, Peace-
Loving, Flashback-Inducing Stories from those Who were there. Avon, MA:
Adams Media, 2009.
Remembers the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair from the personal
perspectives of fifty participants. Provides more than descriptions of
specific happenings by articulating “what was going on in the minds of
those hardy souls who traveled to Woodstock, and thus what was going
on in our nation.” Notes these stories reflect collectively American youth
culture at the time. The editor describes this anthology as “a fascinating
mixture of history, humor, and passion.” Each essay is brief and written
in the first person. Includes contributions from Lisa Law (of the Hog
Farm), who contends the people in attendance were the festival more
so than was the music. Others describe, for example, the tribulations
of traveling to the concert and their resourcefulness in managing the
three days of the event. Includes an eclectic “Woodstock Glossary” and
four pages of “Woodstock Stats” (e.g., estimated percentage of festival
attendees smoking marijuana, 90; number of portable toilets, 600).
173. Robins, Wayne. A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record. New York:
Routledge, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203941058
Contains a typical shorthand description of the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair. States the festival represented the end of an aesthetic era
and resulted in the beginning of the exploitation of rock music as a
commodity which affected significantly programming at radio stations.
Includes an annotated discography of essential recordings.
174. Rogan, Johnny. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Visual Documentary.
London: Omnibus Press, 1996.
Reports on the history of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young using a date-
by-date chronological approach. Includes an entry for August 18, 1969,
the day they played at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes their
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intimidation on playing before such a large audience. States Neil Young

did not join the others on stage until later in the set. Observes Young’s
relative detachment during the performance. Claims their success at
the festival was due more to the “empathy they displayed towards
the audience, articulating and reflecting its ideals in everything from
dress to political pronouncements.” Articulates how their name became
synonymous with the event. Includes numerous photographs, an
annotated discography, and a list of unreleased compositions.
175. Santelli, Robert. Aquarius Rising: The Rock Festival Years. New York:
Delta, 1980.
Depicts the rock festival phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Contends the festivals “symbolized the temporary triumph” of the
counterculture. Cover the Woodstock music and Art Fair from the very
beginning of when John Roberts and Joel Rosenman first met, when
Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang first met, and the coming together
of the foursome to formulate the concept of the Woodstock festival as
a business venture. Explains issues with the initial concert location of
Wallkill, New York. Reviews working relationship of the promoters and
Max Yasgur, describing how his property was eventually secured for
the event. Details traffic problems associated with attendees getting to
the site. Highlights involvement of the Hog Farm commune in helping
keep the festival from becoming a disaster. Chronicles tribulations of
musicians contending with poor weather and provides notes on their
performances. Highlights the acts Sly and the Family Stone and The Who.
Mentions the tenor of the news media coverage, issues surrounding food
availability, and medical care afforded to those having bad drug-induced
experiences. Provides post-event information, including comments on
the success of the motion picture Woodstock. Contains a partial list of the
fees paid to each act.
176. Sheehan, Rita J., Bethel. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2009.
Includes archival photographs of sites from around Bethel, New York,

and associated with the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
177. Spitz, Robert Stephen. Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the

Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
Declares the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to have been an

“unprecedented historical event that spanned the generation gap and
prompted a culturally divided nation to reassess its inherited morality.”
Strives to uncover the motivating forces that created the event and the
genesis of its magnetism. Attempts to substitute the now mythological

visions of Woodstock with one of a vast commercial enterprise during
a period of idealism. Includes a lengthy list of individuals and their
associations with the festival and a detailed site map. Provides an
exhaustive history of the event, starting with the formation of Woodstock
Ventures, and a blow-by-blow account of the full three days of the music
festival. Focuses on the idiosyncrasies and motivations of the individual
players in order to highlight the “fascinating cornucopia of personality
that became the very essence” of the historical event. Details the messy
financial aftermath. Concludes with a where-are-they-now section.
178. Stradling, David. Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2007.
Explores the relation between New York City and the Catskills
Mountains. Provides a succinct accounting of the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair from the perspective of its invasiveness on the New York state
countryside. Focuses on the traffic and parking. Quotes dairy framer
Clarence Townsend complaining of the “human cesspool” made of his
property. Claims the event was a success simply because it could have
been much worse. Concludes discussion of the festival by lamenting
“once again the city had come to the country, as it is wont to do; it had
made a mess, and then gone home.” Points out Woodstock was not
homegrown, but rather forced upon the locality.
179. Szatmary, David P. Rockin’ in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Places the social history of rock music within a context of American

culture using a textbook format. Claims the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair represented a collective antiauthoritarian attitude among America’s
youth. Focuses on the performances by Country Joe McDonald and Jimi
Hendrix in order to illustrate the political, and even militant, nature
of the festival. Asserts the soon to follow Altamont Speedway concert
“dashed any sense of power that Woodstock had engendered,” only to
be further destroyed by the May 1970 Kent State campus shootings of
students by the National Guard.
180. Tamarkin, Jeff. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson

Airplane. New York: Atria, 2003.
Presents a history of the musical group Jefferson Airplane. Mentions

briefly the band’s experience of being at the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair. Notes the group elected to not allow their performance to be
included in the motion picture Woodstock.
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181. Walker, Michael. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s

Legendary Neighborhood. New York: Farber & Farber, 2006.
Relays the history of Laurel Canyon in its heyday of being a mecca for the
Los Angeles music scene from 1964 to 1981. Reports Laurel Canyon was
represented at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair by Crosby, Stills, Nash
& Young (CSN&Y) and Canned Heat. Notes CSN&Y rehearsed for the
festival at a house in the canyon rented by Stephen Stills and owned by
Peter Tork of The Monkees. Mentions David Geffen getting Warner Bros.
to use the CSN&Y recording of Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock” in the
closing credits of the motion picture Woodstock. Contrasts the positive
spirit of Woodstock with the disastrous Altamont Speedway concert
taking place a few months later and held to high expectations generating
from the overall positive Woodstock festival. States Woodstock and
Altamont were, despite the mythology, separated only by “luck and
marginally better planning.”
182. Woodstock: The 35th Anniversary (1969 Special Edition Reprint). [s.l.]:
Life, 2004.
Serves primarily as a photographic essay documenting the original

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Includes some textual content. Originally
published in 1969 as a special edition of Life magazine.
183. Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Three Days of Peace and Music. Concert
Hall Publications for Woodstock Ventures Inc., 1969.
Serves as the official program book for the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair (August 15–17, 1969).
184. Young, Jean, and Michael Lang. Woodstock Festival Remembered.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1979.
Remembers the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from the perspective of
Michael Lang, “the man who conceived and planned it.” Attempts to
provide readers with a sense of the experience from Lang’s perspective,
starting with the initial concept through the planning and preparations
to the financial aftermath and dealings with Warner Bros. over the
motion picture. Notes the first three acts booked for the festival were
Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, and Creedence Clearwater Revival
for $10,000 each. Provides insights to the efforts put towards wrangling
the performers and managing the personalities behind the scenes (e.g.,
Abbie Hoffman). Offers the event was successful because of how it
unfolded beyond anyone’s imagination, “it happened spontaneously,
and so folks had to react to it naturally.” Reflects on the culture of the
times that allowed the festival to become a historic milestone. Observes

how the Hog Farm commune set the peaceful and cooperative tone for
the weekend. Heavily illustrated with both color and black and white
photographs.
Chapters
185. Aronowitz, Alfred G. “1969: Benign Monster Devoured Music.”
American Datelines: Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present.
Eds. Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, and Miles Beller. Urbana, IL: University
of Illinois Press, 2003. 339–341.
Reprints first-person account of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair by a

New York Post correspondent. Refers to the massive crowd as a “monster,”
describing it as benign, magnificent, and kept alive by the magic of music.
Questions from the perspective of leaving by helicopter at the end of the
event whether one would remember more the monster or its footprint.
186. Bass, Amy. “Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?” Not the
Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black
Athlete. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 291–348.
Offers a history of the African-American athlete. Argues one must

“consider culture as a primary vehicle for understanding national
identity.” Evokes both Jose Feliciano and Jimi Hendrix as performers
of controversial versions of the nation anthem. Describes Hendrix’s
performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair as a deconstruction in which he critiqued and “dismantled the
central ideas and mythologies of the United States” in an attempt at
redemption. Asserts Hendrix performed a celebration, elegy, and dirge
in a single instance. Equates this act at Woodstock with the black power
salutes by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics, both
representative of “performative nationalism.” Discusses the historic
need for African Americans to use alternative methods of protest.
187. Bernstein, Jacob. “The Woodstock Festival is Now More Myth than
Reality.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise I.
Claims news media did not initially consider the 1969 Woodstock Music
and Art Fair newsworthy. Reveals New York Times reporter Barnard
Collier was at the event “on his own dime” and the Associated Press
sent 19-year-old intern Lawrence Kramer to the festival as his first
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photography assignment (the photographs were published in Life

magazine). Acknowledges the press reversed quickly this attitude, but
has since overcompensated with attention and enthusiasm across time
thus contributing to Woodstock’s mythological status. Includes a sidebar
of memorable Woodstock quotes.
188. Budds, Michael J., and Marian M. Ohman. “The Woodstock

Nation.” Rock Recall: Annotated Readings in American Popular Music
from the Emergence of Rock and Roll to the Demise of the Woodstock Nation.
Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press, 1993. 292–295.
Contains reprints of items written about the Woodstock Music and

Art Fair: “As Reported in the Pages of a Regional Newspaper” (Denver
Post, August 18, 1969); “As Recalled by Participant David Crosby”
(Woodstock: The Oral History, 1989); and “The Message of History’s
Biggest Happening” (Time, August 29, 1969). All of the items attempt
to derive meaning, either cultural or personal, from the event. The book,
as a whole, consists of numerous reprints and annotations that provide
context through a history of writings on rock music. Emphasizes first-
person accounts by performers and influential persons from behind the
scenes.
189. Cavett, Dick. “The Dick Cavett show Interview (September).”

Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix. Ed.
Steven Roby, 2012. 219–225.
Transcribes Jimi Hendrix’s interview on The Dick Cavett Show (September

9, 1969). Hendrix comments on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, his
performance of The Star Spangled Banner, and the lack of violence at
the festival. Watch the video at: http://www.historyvshollywood.com/
video/jimi-hendrix-interview-dick-cavett-show/
190. Coates, Norma. “If Anything, Blame Woodstock: The Rolling

Stone — Altamont, December 6, 1969.” Performance and Popular Music:
History, Place and Time. Ed. Ian Inglis. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006.
58–69.
Argues the underground and mainstream press created an untrue

representation of the 1960s counterculture and was “willfully blind to
the practical realities of rock music” culture, leading to the tragedy at
the Altamont Speedway concert. Claims the immediate mythology of
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, created by the news media, made
the inadequate and loose construct of the Altamont Speedway concert
inevitable. Cites overall bad publicity associated with large-scale music

festivals prior to the Woodstock event, making the case that Woodstock
was the exception to the rule. Scrutinizes in detail how mass media
essentially forced the conditions at Altamont. Focuses to a large extent
on Rolling Stone magazine and rock critic Ralph Gleason.
191. Collier, Barnard L. “Woodstock Participants were Peaceful and

Community-Minded.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock.
Reproduces the New York Times (August 17, 1969) article from which
excerpts were read from the stage to the crowd at the 1969 Woodstock
Music and Art Festival. Presents Woodstock in an overall favorable
light. Observes that despite the poor conditions (drenching rain and
shortages of food, water, and medical facilities), the participants were
well behaved, even according to the police. Continues by discussing
the doctors summoned from New York City, the parked automobiles
blocking the highways, the piles of garbage, and the size of the police
force comprised from various agencies. Notes most of the attendees
could not see the performances nor hear the music very well.
192. Cooke, Alistair. “Dire Prophecies before, and High Spirits during,
Woodstock.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise
I. Gerdes. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 67–71.
Pulls from the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian (August 18, 1969), an article
from immediately following the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (available
at https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/aug/19/woodstock-
music-art-fair). Indicates the fears were mostly exaggerated regarding
what could possibly happen with so many from the counterculture
gathering in one location (i.e., “wholesale pot smoking at best, heroin at
worst, an ocean of garbage, universal bad manners, an orgy of love-ins,
and probably a bloody encounter with the police”). Includes a sidebar
on Jimi Hendrix.
193. Cooke, Douglas. “Woodstock Music and Art Fair 1969: Three Days
of Peace and Music.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock.
Summarizes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the associated

controversies, and impact of the event. Food shortages, sanitation
issues, and extreme weather created an initial reaction in many of
viewing the festival as a disaster. Reports the event was considered to
be “a monument to faulty planning, a testament to the limitations and
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hypocrisies of hippie idealism, a nightmare of absurdities, ironies, and

incongruities.” Notes later analysis of the communal spirit, generated
at the event out of necessity in the face of disaster, raised the festival
to its iconic stature. Touches on the tensions between the commercial
motivations behind Woodstock and the lingering mythological status
it holds within American culture. Observes the anniversary event,
Woodstock ’94, “reflected the apathy and passive consumption”
associated with Generation X.
194. Cullen, Jim. “Woodstock Music Festival Marks the Climax of

1960’s Youth Culture.” Great Events from History. Ed. Robert F. Gorman.
v. 6, 1969–1970 (The 20th Century: 1941–1970). Pasadena, CA: Salem
Press, 2008. 3288–3291.
Characterizes the “road to Woodstock” beginning with the 1967

Monterey International Pop Festival and the “road from Woodstock”
leading to the Altamont Speedway concert. Breaks the essay into two
sections: summary and significance. Describes the politically turbulent
decade leading up to the festival and notes how the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair “became a litmus test as to whether the counterculture
could be true to its principles.” Observes Woodstock, at the time, was a
symbol of the power of the counterculture, suggesting the beginning of
new order of “personal freedom, political pacifism, and social optimism.”
States history has shown it to have been the beginning of the end of the
youth movement in America. Discusses the social conflicts within the
counterculture, struggling between the youth movement as a political
entity versus a lifestyle. Includes a short annotated bibliography.
195. Dalton, David. “Woodstock Planted Seeds of Activism that Persist

Today.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise I.
Suggests the Woodstock Music and Art Fair created a legacy that is still
very present. Contains observations by individuals regarding the lasting
impact of the event on their lives. Quotes from key persons, including
comments from Michael Lang (co-founder of the festival), Michael
Wadleigh (director of the motion picture Woodstock), Eddie Kramer
(sound engineer), the author (former writer for Rolling Stone magazine),
and festival performers Country Joe McDonald, Melanie, and Carlos
Santana. Reports on several observations from these individuals
claiming the event planted seeds of hope for a more peaceful world.
Includes a sidebar of other historic events occurring in 1969, such as the
Apollo moon landing, the Manson murders, and the disastrous Altamont
Speedway concert featuring the Rolling Stones.
196. Doyle, Michael William. “The Woodstock Festival Site has

Historical and Cultural Significance Worth Commemorating.”
Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed. Louise I. Gerdes.
Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 138–150.
Excerpts from the Preliminary Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement

of the Bethel Performing Arts Center, on behalf of the Gerry Foundation
(a corporation committed to building a museum at the original site of
the festival). Outlines some of the ways in which the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair has become ingrained in the cultural vocabulary and in
American history. Offers the event was different from previous large-
scale rock festivals because it featured the largest audience and selection
of musicians ever assembled, lacked violence despite the presence of all
the necessary conditions, and in many ways succeeded as it “took on the
aspect of a high stakes experiment.” Articulates the festival’s symbolism,
long-term significance, and impact on music (e.g., the advent of large-
scale stadium concerts). Includes a sidebar on the band Santana.
197. “A Fleeting, Wonderful Moment of ‘Community’.” Takin’ it to the

Streets: A Sixties Reader. Eds. Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 508–511.
Reprints an article from The New Yorker published shortly after the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Mentions one college student’s
experience attending the festival, noting he viewed the event much more
positively than did the news media. Describes what it was like to be an
attendee in terms of dealing with the traffic, obtaining food from The
Hog Farm, and wandering the crowd. Notes the impact of the heavy rain
storms and how audience members coped. Relays there was an overall
air of good attitudes amongst the throngs.
198. Fong-Torres, Ben. “The Resurrection of Santana.” Not Fade Away:

A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll. San Francisco, CA: Miller
Freeman, 1999. 100–117. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/
the-resurrection-of-santana-19721207
Reprints a feature article on the group Santana originally appearing

in Rolling Stone magazine (December 7, 1972). Quotes Bill Graham at
length describing how he helped promote Santana and develop their
career, including negotiating with Michael Lang to get the relatively
unknown group a spot in the line-up for the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Comments on his successful efforts to have Santana highlighted
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in the motion picture Woodstock. Explains how Graham also managed

to increase the group’s payment for film rights by tenfold, from $750 to
$7,500.
199. Frisch, Michael. “Woodstock and Altamont.” True Stories from the
American Past. Ed. William Graebner. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
217–239.
Attempts to disjoin the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and the Altamont
Speedway concert, two events from 1969 that evoke a good-vs-evil
mythology convenient for capturing and summarizing the dichotomies
of America in the 1960s. Describes how two investors (John Roberts
and Joel Rosenman) entered into a partnership with two promoters
(Michael Laing and Artie Kornfeld) to form Woodstock Ventures and
plan the Woodstock festival. Explains how other key players came to be
involved (e.g., Mel Lawrence, Chip Monck, Wes Pomeroy). Covers the
failed attempt to stage the event in Walkill, New York, and the eventual
site selection of Max Yasgur’s farm near Bethel, New York. Points out
the significance of Yasgur’s support in launching the concert. Details
the issues surrounding logistics, security, and the enlistment of the Hog
Farm for assistance. Explores in detail the youth culture represented
by Woodstock attendees and the influence of rock music in shaping
the demographic. Recounts how the weekend unfolded in terms of
the crowd size, the weather, and the use of illegal drugs. Contends
this all somehow evolved into an idealized imagery in retrospect.
Continues by reporting on the violence and murder at the Altamont
Speedway concert held just a few months later. Concludes Woodstock
“epitomized the values of culture, politics, and community at the core of
generational change” and how these images can “transform the meaning
of experience.” Argues the Altamont Speedway concert, in reality, may
have been more “innocent” than Woodstock in terms of the actual
experience for the majority of attendees.
200. Frisch, Michael. “Woodstock Festival.” Encyclopedia of New York

State. Ed. Peter R. Eisenstadt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2005. 1716–1717.
Describes the Woodstock Music and Fair from a somewhat historical

context. Touches on the immediate aftermath and society’s reactions and
responses to the event. Observes the turmoil at the festival represented
“free-form museum of urban problems.” Claims “threat of chaos and
the music-mediated response of strangers linked by self-discipline and
collective self-help served to create a political, cultural, and musical

generational community where none had quite existed.” Notes the
generational contrasts with both Woodstock ’94 and Woodstock ’99.
201. Glausser, Wayne. “Woodstock.” Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 166–167.
Reports LSD was one of the more commonly used drugs at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Notes “widespread distribution and consumption
of the drug went unchallenged by the police” at the festival. Explains
how members of the Hog Farm preferred to talk someone off of a bad
LSD trip as opposed to administering Thorazine. Observes the only
significant drug casualty was a heroin-induced death. States LSD was a
drug of choice at Woodstock ’94 as well, but concerns were raised over
the attendees’ lack of experience with taking acid.
202. Graham, Bill, and Robert Greenfield. “Woodstock Nation.” Rock

and Roll is here to Stay: An Anthology. Ed. WIlliam McKeen. New York: W.
W. Norton, 2000. 404–414.
Contains excerpts from an oral history project undertaken by the

authors. Provides a perspective from Graham’s Fillmore East crew
who were drafted into helping organize the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Includes comments by Graham and others on Graham’s feelings
towards the event. Carlos Santana describes how Graham coerced the
promoters into putting the band Santana on the bill. Discusses the
quality of performances and the poor conditions during the three days
of the concert. Touches on the financial compensation of the musicians
for both the event and the subsequent film. Includes quotes from Wavy
Gravy, Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, and several others involved
with the festival.
203. Gravy, Wavy. “Hog Farming at Woodstock.” The Sixties: The Decade
Remembered Now, by the People Who Lived it Then. Ed. Lynda Rosen Obst.
New York: Rolling Stone Press, 1977. 274–279.
Relays the experience of the Hog Farm being flown to and from the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair and the author’s impressions of working
with festival attendees who were coping with bad drug trips. Explains
the methodology employed by members of the Hog Farm to enlist
volunteers in providing medical care and food services. Accompanied
with large black and white photographs by Baron Wolman. Represents
one chapter in a work of collected oral histories from individuals with
unique perspectives on key events from the 1960s.
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204. Hamilton, Neil A. “Woodstock.” The ABC-CLIO Companion to the

1960s Counterculture in America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
336–338.
Focuses on the audience experience at the Woodstock Music and Art

Fair more so than the music, noting the event was the personification
of counterculture ideals. The publication as a whole elucidates in an
encyclopedic format the people and events that challenged 1960s’ society
and made the period “among the most tumultuous, and controversial, in
U.S. history.”
205. Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson. “The Music of the Sixties.”
The 60s Reader. New York: Viking Kestrel, 1988. 81–104.
Notes the first item to leave the shelves empty at Vassmer’s General
Store during the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was potato chips.
Quotes the store’s owners fifteen years after the event as noting not one
of the checks cashed during the historic weekend bounced. Mentions
the lingering general goodwill held regarding the festival, with many
persons claiming to have been there who, in fact, were not in attendance.
Observes Woodstock has come to symbolize the 1960s rather than the
tragic Altamont Speedway concert where one audience member was
murdered in front of the stage. Concludes this means overall positive
aspects of the 1960s generation “struck a responsive chord.”
206. Hertzberg, Hendrik. “You had to be there.” Politics: Observations

and Arguments, 1966–2004. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. 39–41.
Reprints an article from The New Republic (August 28, 1989) describing
the author’s personal account of having attended the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Claims he went because of the rumor that Bob Dylan would
be making an appearance at the festival. Describes journey to the site
as a “vast medieval gypsy pilgrimage.” Explains how he and his three
friends managed in the mud and rain. Hertzberg is a political writer for
The New Yorker.
207. “Jimi Hendrix’s Post-Woodstock Comments.” Hendrix on Hendrix:

Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix. Ed. Steven Roby. Chicago:
Chicago Review Press, 2012. 213.
Transcribes Jimi Hendrix’s response to a reporter when asked to share

his thoughts on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair that had just ended.
Hendrix discusses nonviolence. From a Canadian radio broadcast
(August 18, 1969).
208. Kirkpatrick, Rob. “Heaven in a Disaster Area.” 1969: The Year

Everything Changed. New York: Skyhorse, 2009. 171–193.
Provides a detailed chronological narrative of the entire three days of

the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and the trials, tribulations, missteps,
and preparations leading up to it. Notes the event followed several
months of numerous outdoor concerts, many featuring the same acts
later to appear at Woodstock. These music festivals set the stage for
increasingly large-scale, loosely-organized rock concerts. Describes the
sets performed by each act at Woodstock. Envelops the entire narrative
with the parallel tracking of Hurricane Camille. Touches on the legacy of
the Woodstock festival.
209. Laure, Jason. “The Spontaneity of Woodstock Cannot be

Reproduced.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed.
Suggests the “defining spontaneity” of the original Woodstock Music

and Art Fair is elusive. Contends the event “grew to half a million by
word of mouth alone” and there was no purpose other than to enjoy the
music, a “common bond that transcended professional status, religion,
education, and region.” Claims the festival created community by
allowing like-minded individuals to discover how many others shared
their social perspectives.
210. Lerner, Steve. “Woodstock as a Coming-Out Party for Hippies.”

Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 58–66.
Reprints the author’s Village Voice front page article from August 21,
1969. Describes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in terms of being a
pilgrimage to confirm the hippie lifestyle. Depicts the reactions of local
residents as the onslaught of festival attendees began. Delves into the
miserable drug-related conditions. Notes the event site was “like the
Sinai Desert after the Egyptian retreat” as the crowds dispersed at the
end of the festival, leaving shoes, sleeping bags, and other artifacts
scattered across Max Yasgur’s farm.
211. Madden, David W. “Woodstock Festival.” The Sixties in America.

Ed. Carl Singleton. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999. 793–795.
Recounts the origins, history, and basic key points of the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Notes the promoters decided to have the
performances run continuously so as to alleviate potential rioting due
to the poor weather conditions and the unanticipated size of the crowd.
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Concludes by commenting on the impact of the festival (e.g., growth of

arena concerts, increased commercialism of rock music culture).
212. Marcus, Greil. “The Woodstock Festival.” 20 Years of Rolling Stone:

What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been. Ed. Jann S. Wenner. New York:
Friendly Press, 1987. 49–56.
Collects selected articles originally published in Rolling Stone during the

magazine’s first twenty years. Attempts to provide an “impressionistic
chronology” suggesting a social and political history. Marcus relates his
audience experience during the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, with
particular attention given to the performance by Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young. Discusses the meaning of the event.
213. Moodie, David, and Maureen Callahan. “Don’t Drink the Brown
Water.” Da Capo: Best Music Writing 2000. Ed. Peter Guralnick. New
York: Da Capo Press, 2000. 72–97.
Recounts in great detail the behaviors of the crowds and promoters at

Woodstock ’99 leading to riots, rapes, and general mayhem. Describes
the locale of the event as a former air base with “the surface of which
was mostly concrete.” Explains the extremely level site made it difficult
for attendees to stay oriented. Discusses the commercialization and
exploitation of the promoters and vendors, the poor sanitary conditions,
and the attendees’ experience of exceptional hot weather on a mostly
concrete plateau. Suggests the audience was encouraged from the stage,
by some of the performers, to act out violently. Highlights exceptionally
aggressive assaults experienced by audience members in the mosh pits.
Provides little commentary on the music.
214. Morrison, Joan, and Robert K. Morrison. “Bruce Hoffman.” From

Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of those Who Lived
it. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 210–218.
Resides as a chapter in a book of oral histories on the 1960s. Hoffman

spent his time at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair distributing
thousands of cards printed with a picture of the Indian spiritual master
Meher Baba. States he also helped attendees come off of bad drug trips.
215. Morrison, Joan, and Robert K. Morrison. “David Malcolm.” From

it. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 202.
Resides as a chapter in a book of oral histories on the 1960s. Malcolm,

now a newspaper editor, attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair,
but disliked most of it. Articulates distaste and hostility towards hippies
and the 1960s counterculture. Believes the type of music played at the
festival hasn’t held up over time.
216. Morrison, Joan, and Robert K. Morrison. “Jason Zapator.” From

Resides as a chapter in a book of oral histories on the 1960s. Zapator was

nineteen years old when he attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Comments on his observations of the Hell’s Angels, the Hog Farm, and
the availability of illegal drugs. Describes performances by Melanie, The
Who, and Jimi Hendrix.
217. Morrison, Joan, and Robert K. Morrison. “Kevin Compton.” From

Resides as a chapter in a book of oral histories on the 1960s. Compton

attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair while still in high school.
Notes he was an outcast in his small hometown because of his long hair,
but the large crowd at Woodstock showed him “how widespread the
counterculture movement was.” Acknowledges just because hippies all
looked similar it didn’t mean they shared the same values.
218. Morrison, Joan, and Robert K. Morrison. “Woodstock Nation.”

The Rock History Reader. Ed. Theo Cateforis. New York: Routledge, 2007.
115–119.
Acknowledges the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is mythologized

“as the canonizing statement of the 1960s counterculture.” Presents
deviating recollections from three festival attendees. Illustrates the
differing realities of the experience in order to refute popular myths
regarding the concert as “a monolithic, unifying event.” Draws from the
authors’ oral history project on the 1960s.
219. Onkey, Lauren. “Voodoo Child: Jimi Hendrix and the Politics of
Race in the Sixties.” Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the
1960s and ‘70s. Eds. Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle. New
York: Routledge, 2001. 189–214. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203615171
Compares and contrasts two Jimi Hendrix performances, held three weeks
apart, to illustrate the politics of race in America during the 1960s. Suggests
his set at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and the performance of The
Star Spangled Banner in particular, became symbolic of the counterculture
because the “crowd was struck dumb by this bravura deconstruction” of
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the national anthem by a “funkily elegant” dressed African-American who

flashed a peace sign before starting to play. Notes Hendrix’s performance
later at the Harlem United Block Association benefit evoked a much
different response. There, playing to a predominantly black audience
mostly unfamiliar with his music, he was seen as being apart from the
crowd, someone dissimilar. Continues by examining Hendrix’s career as
a “barometer of racial consciousness in the counterculture.”
220. “Peace, Love and Mud.” 1969: Woodstock, the Moon and Manson: The
Turbulent End of the ‘60s. Ed. Kelly Knauer. New York: Time Books, 2009.
84–87.
References The Museum at Bethel Woods, a structure dedicated to

memorializing the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes the topic of
the festival was proven to still be controversial when the U.S. Senate
defeated legislation that would have provided funding to help build the
museum. Observes new technology makes the Woodstock experience
more accessible than ever thanks to home movies and outtakes from
the documentary film, Woodstock (available on YouTube at https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=czFr_kJCdKQ). Describes the festival as a
“triumph of improvisation” when recounting the story of how the event
barely happened and barely avoided disaster.
221. Potter, Sean. “The Impact of Weather on the Woodstock Festival.”

Greenhaven Press: Greenhaven Press, 2012. 72–77.
Describes the significant impact of the weather leading up to and during

the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Claims heavy rains prior to the
event made installing a fence around the site (in order to control access)
difficult, thus making the event free to two-thirds of the attendees. States
some performances ended early due to the weather. Observes by Sunday
the festival site was “a sea of mud that was ankle-deep in some places.”
Discusses the audience’s reaction to the weather and their collective
coping strategies. Mentions the related effects of Hurricane Camille
during this same weekend. Notes Woodstock ’94 experienced similar
conditions. The author is a meteorologist.
222. Rubin, Mike. “Summer of ‘69: Exploring the Cultural Battle

between Charles Manson and Woodstock.” Spin Greatest Hits: 25 Years
of Heretics, Heroes, and the New Rock ‘n’ Roll. Ed. Doug Brod. Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley & sons, 2010. 28–44. http://www.spin.com/featured/
charles-manson-woodstock-summer-of-69-spin-1994-cover-story/
Contrasts the Woodstock Music and Art Fair with the Manson Family
murders, both events from August 1969. Acknowledges the Woodstock
festival created briefly an euphoric endorsement for counterculture

values of love and peace. Asserts, however, this was soon overshadowed
by ongoing media coverage of the “sinister and pervasive” nature of
Charles Manson and his followers. Points to the twenty-fifth anniversary
music events celebrating the original Woodstock concert as evidence of
its “monumental importance.” Discusses Charles Manson as a “hippie
doppelganger.” Claims although antithetical, “Manson and Woodstock
are inextricable linked, with Manson considered the Grim Reaper
of the Woodstock dream.” Suggests the current younger generation
romanticizes Manson in order to express disappointment and exert
rebellion against their parents’ baby boom generation.
223. Shriver, Jerry. “Views on the Legacy of Woodstock Vary

Significantly.” Perspectives on Modern World History: Woodstock. Ed.
Asserts the relevance of 1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Fair varies
substantially among individuals forty years after the event. Reports
on “opinions expressed by festival attendees and participants, museum
visitors, bloggers and readers queried by USA Today.” Includes quotes
from Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane), John Fogerty (Creedence
Clearwater Revival), Dave Marsh (rock music critic), and Sam Yasgur
(son of Max Yasgur), among others. Notes opinions regarding the festival
range from it having been a paradise to an epic disaster, and from it
representing youth united as a single voice to an accidental gathering
without purpose. Concludes by stating the meaning of Woodstock is
related to national identity because it was an exhibition of the freedom
of expression.
224. Ward, Ed, Geoffrey Stokes, and Ken Tucker. “Woodstock... and
Altamont.” Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll.
Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1986. 420–446.
Begins with a description of the counterculture’s social, political, and

musical disparities, thus illustrating the lack of an actual singularity.
Moves into a discussion on growth in the number of rock music
festivals and their associated problems, such as violence. Delves into the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair’s economic appeal. Mentions the career
successes of Santana and Joe Cocker spawned by the festival. Continues
with an overview of major British recording artists of the time, including
The Who, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles. Concludes with a
look at the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway concert. Includes a
list of the fees paid to many of the acts appearing at Woodstock.
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225. Warner, Simon. “Reporting Woodstock: Some Contemporary Press

Reflections on the Festival.” Remembering Woodstock. Ed. Andy Bennett.
Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 55–74.
Studies how the print media, both mainstream and alternative presses,
originally reported on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Attempts
to “challenge the mythic status bestowed on the festival by subsequent
memoirs.” Asserts the festival “has been sold by a vocal generation who
believed that the event was the apogee of their attainment.” Reviews in
depth the coverage provided at the time by the New York Times, Village
Voice, and Rolling Stone. Includes a briefer section examining coverage
by the British publications The Guardian, Melody Maker, and New Musical
Express. Considers ideological stances of the publications and the
related influences on the reporting. Includes a postscript in which two
journalists (Greil Marcus and Tom Smucker) revisit and reflect on their
original reporting.
Articles
226. Brady, John. “An Afternoon with Max Yasgur.” Popular Music and
Society 3 (1974): 24–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007767408591033
Describes the author’s attempts and eventual success in interviewing

Max Yasgur. Recounts first visiting Yasgur’s farm, the location of the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and an encounter with a young man
making a pilgrimage to the site who recollected on having been at the
festival. Relays observations of the event by three other individuals
who also attended Woodstock. Shares stories of the ways in which area
residents interacted with the festival attendees, including a local dentist
who “let the kids come into his office and brush their teeth.” Shares
Yasgur’s remarks regarding the festival, his generally favorable opinions
on the counterculture generation, and the impact on his relationships
with local citizens. Reports Yasgur received approximately 10,000 letters
following the concert.
227. de Yampert, Rick. “Suffering from Entertainment Writers’ Guilt no

More.” Editor and Publisher 127.40 (1994): 48, 33.
Recounts humorously the author’s experience reporting on Woodstock

’94. Describes being “issued second-class press credentials―ones which
denied us access to the press tent with its precious phone lines and
electrical outlets.” Provides insight into the problems associated with
reporting on such events.
228. Graves, Tom. “Peace, Love and Music.” American History 30.6
(1996): 47+.
Touches on all the key points related to staging the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Mentions the planning for the festival, noting Michael Lang
“had an almost mystical vision of the Woodstock festival.” Comments on
the traffic, security, and Abbie Hoffman’s famous attempt to take the
stage during the performance by The Who.
229. Howard, John A. “Principles in Default: Rediscovered and

Reapplied.” Vital Speeches of the Day 66.20 (2000): 618–619. http://www.
stcroixreview.com/archives_nopass/2000-12/Howard.pdf
Presents a speech by the conservative author delivered at the Annual

Meeting of the Philadelphia Society in Chicago, Illinois (April 29, 2000).
Cites quickly the author’s attempt to stop the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair upon learning of “the open use of marijuana and other illegal
drugs.” States he contacted the White House to urge the termination of
the festival.
230. Isserman, Maurice. “3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of

Memory.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 55.43 (2009): [n.p.].
Reminisces on the author’s own first-hand memories of the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair and his “sense of having unexpectedly blundered
into the opportunity to make history.” Comments on the news media’s
prejudices against the event as it was unfolding. Uses Civil War
commemorations as illustrative parallels to the Woodstock festival’s
enduring mythology of “innocence, self-reliance, and self-invention”
owing much to the traditional American narrative. Acknowledges
Woodstock was not an overtly political event, but also claims it would
not have happened if it had not been for the Civil Rights movement and
other political insurgencies of the 1960s. Observes the concert has also
found its place in history as “a moment of reconciliation rather than
confrontation.” Suggests that the event should be remembered, like the
Civil War, as a more complicated phenomenon.
231. Kopper, Philip. “Flashback to Woodstock.” American Heritage 59.2

(2009): 14, 16. http://www.americanheritage.com/content/flashback-
woodstock
Describes the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a museum built to
celebrate the Woodstock nation and the “zeitgeist that spawned it, and
the phenomena that flowed from it.” Uses the Woodstock Music and Art
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Fair as a focal point, but the museum spans the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, and the counterculture.
232. Laure, Jason. “Memory of a Free Festival: Woodstock Thirty Years

Later.” The World & I 14.8 (1999): 233–239.
Offers first-person account of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from
a photographer who captured the event for the cover of Newsweek.
Describes the event as “a watershed moment of American culture and a
landmark of the twentieth century.” Recalls being drawn to the event by
the promise of music and with no plans on how to survive the weekend.
States the music transcended social boundaries to create community.
Claims efforts to recreate the spirit of the festival fail because the original
spontaneity remains elusive.
233. McHugh, Catherine. “Mind Over Mud: How LD Allen Branton

and Crew Brought 90s Technology Back to the Garden for Woodstock
94.” Lighting Dimensions 18.8 (1994): 62–69, 165–174.
Details the process of creating and managing the lighting design for
Woodstock ’94. Offers insight into maintaining the lighting system
in the face of adverse weather conditions. Delves into the problems
associated with producing a large-scale event, including having to
account for both natural daylight and nighttime performances. Notes
the need to meet the lighting demands of the performers and set
designers. Reproduces a drawing of the stage lighting plans. Includes
a list of the lighting supervisory staff members and an itemization of
the equipment used.
234. Noack, David. “Covering Woodstock.” Editor and Publisher

September 10 (1994): 16–18.
Describes how three daily newspapers covered Woodstock ’94. Notes

some of the planning that went into preparing to report from the site, the
various logistics, and the associated problems in doing so that developed
during the concert.
235. Parker, James. “Long Time Gone.” Atlantic Monthly 304.2 (2009): 34–36.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/woodstock-
nation/307611/
Reflects on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair for the 40th anniversary
of the event. Considers through an examination of the motion picture
Woodstock how and what has been encapsulated and portrayed for history
versus what has been ignored or glossed over. Faults filmmaker Michael
Wadleigh for not capturing some of the behind-the-scenes controversies,
such as the Grateful Dead demanding cash payment up front. However,
these are dismissed as “sideshows” that would only serve to distract
from the overall narrative.
236. Sheehy, Michael. “Woodstock: How the Media Missed the Historic
Angle of the Breaking Story.” Journalism History 37.4 (2012): 238–246.
Explores why the iconic nature and cultural importance of the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair was not initially realized, emphasized, or reported
by major news media. Examines six daily newspapers (New York Times,
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
and Cincinnati Enquirer) and three magazines (Time, Life, and Rolling
Stone) through the lens of framing theory to determine the prominence of
the news event, the sources of information used to compile the coverage,
and the extent to which the cultural aspects were given attention. Finds
each publication used primarily official sources such as law enforcement
representatives, as opposed to consulting actual attendees. As a result,
the coverage focused mainly on the problems created by the festival
rather than the broader social implications and significances. Suggests
this “served the purpose of reinforcing the control of the ruling elites
in society” despite Woodstock not being an intentionally political event.
237. Shipley, Morgan. “A Conversation with Wavy Gravy.” Journal

for the Study of Radicalism 6.2 (2012): 127–141. https://doi.org/10.1353/
jsr.2012.0015
Transcribes an interview with Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney), founder of

the Hog Farm commune and participant in the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair. Talks about many aspects of his life, such as his involvement
with Acid Tests, his children’s camp known as Camp Winnarainbow, his
clown persona, philanthropic work, and the continuation of the Sixties
ethos. Remarks on how he came to be involved with, and his experiences
at, the Woodstock festival. Quotes him saying for the festival he “had
a bear suit and a rubber shovel so if hippies built a stupid fire, I could
burst out of the bushes and do my Smokey the Bear imitation.” Mentions
how the Hog Farm introduced the Woodstock audience to granola.
238. Sokol, David. “Down to Yasgur’s Farm.” SEGDdesign.22 (2008):

64–69. https://segd.org/museum-bethel-woods
Explains the creation of the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the
Arts, “an interpretive center on Yasgur’s former fields dedicated to the
cultural history of the 1960s and Woodstock.” Describes the relationship
between the museum and the associated performing arts center.
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239. Spock, Daniel. “The Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts:
The Story of the Sixties and Woodstock.” Journal of American History 97.1
(2010): 127–131. https://doi.org/10.2307/jahist/97.1.127
Reviews in some detail the Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
serving to memorialize the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Reports
on the politics behind the funding of the museum. Describes the exhibits,
artifacts, and audiovisual presentations. Notes the museum reinforces
existing notions of the event rather than attempting to overturn
preconceptions. Asserts the Center “stands as a memorial more than
a critical exercise.” Questions the relevance of the place once the baby
boom generation is no longer alive.
240. Yoders, Jeff. “Bronze Award: Back to the Garden.” Building Design
& Construction 48.5 (2007): 58–59. https://www.bdcnetwork.com/
bronze-award-back-garden
Describes the architecture of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
near the historic site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Delves into
the origins of the museum including the purchase of the land by Alan
Gerry and hiring of the architectural firm. Notes the New York State
Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation deemed the
site of the original festival is of national significance and “asked that
permanent construction not be placed within sight of the original natural
amphitheater.”
241. Zanetti, Mary. “Mathematical Lens: Woodstock Revisited.” The

Mathematics Teacher 103.4 (2009): 246–249.
Uses both the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a performing arts venue
and a museum dedicated to preserving the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair experience, and data from the Woodstock festival itself to present
mathematical exercises.
Websites
242. “A Clown for our Time.” http://www.wavygravy.net/bio/biography.
html
Draws from what appears to be a website maintained by Wavy Gravy

himself. Explains how The Hog Farm came to be at the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Notes The Hog Farm was originally asked to “build fire pits
and fire trails around the festival grounds” but convinced the promoters
to allow them to set up a free kitchen as well. States they were later asked
to serve as the festival’s security. Describes experiencing an “amazing
energy that you could surrender to” at Woodstock which allowed The
Hog Farm to operate at the event nonstop for the entire three days.
243. Lane, Steven. “A Conversation with an American Music Icon....

Arlo Guthrie.” http://www.broowaha.com/articles/3344/a-conversation
-with-an-american-music-icon-arlo-guthrie
From a 2008 interview, Arlo Guthrie describes what it was like to be at

the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Claims knowing at the time he was in
a historic moment that was “wonderful and breathtakingly exhilarating.”
States he wishes he had been in a less altered state of mind since he was
playing the biggest event in the history of music, but it still remains one
of his fondest moments.
244. “‘A Little Upstate Folk Festival’: Woodstock and the Incredible
String Band.” http://www.makingtime.co.uk/beglad/woodstock.htm
Comments on the performance of the Incredible String Band at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Describes by what means the band
came to play at the event and the manner of their arrival in a helicopter.
Concentrates on how the band refused to go on stage due to the danger
of playing electrical instruments in the heavy rain and was replaced by
singer/songwriter Melanie (the band performed the next day). Notes
later regrets about postponing their performance which resulted in the
band not being included in the film nor on the record album. Suggests
this affected negatively the group’s career. States the Incredible String
Band was possibly the only act at the Woodstock not to be called back for
an encore. Mentions festival film footage of them performing When You
Find Out Who You Are surfaced eventually.
245. McDonald, Joe. “Country Joe’s Place: Woodstock 1969–1999.”

http://www.countryjoe.com/woodxxx.htm
This is a website created and maintained by Country Joe McDonald

and devoted to all things “Woodstock.” Includes the complete set lists
for both the Country Joe McDonald and the Country Joe & The Fish
performances at the 1969 festival.
246. McDonald, Joe. “County Joe’s Place: Woodstock’s 40th

Anniversary.” http://www.countryjoe.com/woodstock40.htm
This is a website created and maintained by Country Joe McDonald.

Engages in a discourse on the accuracy of various sources proclaiming
to present the correct performance order of artists at the Woodstock
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Music and Art Fair. Includes postings from attendees offering their own
versions of events.
247. Silas, Susan. “I Paid for Woodstock.” http://www.corpse.org/index.

php?option=com_content&task=view&id=787&Itemid=34
Provides a first-person account of attending the Woodstock Music and

Art Fair. Describes the poor sanitation conditions and associated odors.
Talks about how easy, yet unnecessary, it was to have people paged
from the stage. Recalls Tim Hardin’s apparently drug induced state and
his being booed off the stage as a result. Comments on feeling urgency
about attending the festival and after arriving then coming to realize the
same sensation had been “felt by tens of thousands of other kids in big
cities and small towns across the United States.”
248. Stark, Jeff. “What a Riot: Diary of a Woodstock 99 Survivor.” http://

www.salon.com/1999/07/27/woodstock/
Offers a first-person diary of Woodstock ’99. Describes the nearly

hour-by-hour progression of deteriorating conditions and increasing
unruliness of the crowd. Comments on many of the acts. Takes Fred
Durst of Limp Bizkit to task for encouraging from the stage dangerous
behavior among the audience in the pit.
249. Voice of America. “Singer-Songwriter Richie Havens Remembers

His Woodstock.” http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2009-08-15-
voa7-68705132/409291.html
Focuses on the set performed by Richie Havens at the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair. Describes the impromptu playing of Freedom/Motherless
Child at the end of his three-hour performance. Havens observes
although the festival was born out of the turbulence of the 1960s, the
event itself was centered on “peace, love, and cheerfully dealing with the
rain and mud.” Notes Havens has continued to represent the Woodstock
ethos throughout his career.
250. “Woodstock.” http://www.woodstock.com
Seems to be an official Woodstock website. Contains videos (many of

which appear to be from the motion picture Woodstock), photographs,
and a news blog, all devoted to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Presents the entire chronological program of performers, their set lists,
and brief commentaries on each act’s experience at the festival. The
website also sells Woodstock products (e.g., music, apparel, books, and
other merchandise, including tote bags).
251. “Woodstock — Preservation archives.” http://www.woodstock

preservation.org/
Represents the archives of the Woodstock Preservation Alliance, a group

dedicated to perpetuating the spirit of the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair and the preservation of the original site. Notes the group opposed
the building of The Museum at Bethel Woods. Claims the original site
is “a tangible reminder of the cultural, historical, and socially significant
event that occurred there in 1969.”
252. “Woodstock Music Festivals.” http://topics.nytimes.com/top/

reference/timestopics/subjects/w/woodstock_music_festivals/index.html
A New York Times website updated continuously and dedicated to all things
Woodstock. Links to more than 100 original articles from 1969 to present,
including all Woodstock festivals to date. Contains videos and interactive
media as well. Includes oral history videos submitted by readers. Points to
other Woodstock-related websites as selected by the editors.
Transcriptions
253. “The Parable of the Hot Dogs at Woodstock.” Weekend Edition
Saturday (August 15, 2009). http://www.npr.org/2009/08/14/111898362/
the-parable-of-the-hot-dogs-at-woodstock
Commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art

Fair. Transcribes comments by Robert Goldstein (NPR music librarian
and Woodstock attendee). Describes Goldstein’s personal experience of
surviving the event and his three hour quest for food to feed his friends
and himself.
254. “Woodstock: We Went, We Saw, We Left.” All Things Considered

(August 14, 2009). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story
Id=111741353
Transcribes Marcus Rosenbaum’s recollections of his brief attendance at

the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Remarks “Woodstock was a blend of
the miserable and the euphoric, the remarkable and the mundane, the
sophisticated and the callow.”
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255. “Woodstock Memories, Mud and all.” All Things Considered

(August 14, 2009). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story
Id=111899515
Presents interviews with key participants from the 1969 Woodstock

Music and Art Fair, including Artie Kornfeld, Parry Teasdale, Michael
Lang, Bill Thompson, Bob Solomon, and Richie Havens. Comments on
the disorganization of the event and the festival’s legacy.
256. “Woodstock Museum Re-Creates ‘69 Concert.” Weekend Edition

Sunday (July 27, 2008). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=92971931
Transcribes interview of Michael Egan who is the Senior Director for

The Museum at Bethel Woods, an institution located at the original site
of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and dedicated to remembering the
1960s. Discusses multimedia displays at the museum and the legacy of
Woodstock. Includes snippets of commentary from persons associated
with the festival. Ponders whether visitors to the museum contemplate
the notion of the 1960s cultural revolution being reduced to “an exhibit,
a little slice of history you can do in a couple of hours.”
Videos
257. The Creation of the Woodstock 1969 Music Festival: Birth of a Generation.
Dir. Donnelly, Patrick. Westlake Video, 1995.
Presents the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from a historical perspective
using interviews, film from the event, and photographs.
258. Woodstock Diary. Dir. Hegedus, Chris, Erez Laufer, and D. A.

Pennebaker. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2009.
Originally produced for television in 1994. Documents the 1969

Woodstock Arts and Music Fair. Contains footage of performances not
seen in the original major theatrical film Woodstock (1970). Includes more
contemporary interviews (circa 1994) with the festival producers and
some of the participants, such as The Hog Farm’s Wavy Gravy and Lisa
Law.
© Iconic Images/Baron Wolman, all rights reserved.
Biography
Books
259. Baez, Joan. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. New York: Summit
Books, 1987.
Presents an autobiography account on the life of Joan Baez. Offers

succinctly Baez’s unique poetic impressions of the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair. Describes sharing the helicopter ride to the site with her mother
and Janis Joplin. Articulates Baez’s humbled sense during the festival
of belonging to the Woodstock generation. Compares the gathering to
being like a city and a “technicolor, mud-splattered reflection of the
1960s.”
260. Black, Johnny. Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience. New York:
Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999.
Compiles, dissects, and arranges chronologically-by-event various

interviews with numerous individuals to construct a diary-like biography
of Jimi Hendrix. Quotes Eddie Kramer describing his discovery of how
badly prepared things were at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair with
regard to the technology utilized on stage. Mitch Mitchell mentions the
poor conditions at the Holiday Inn used by Jimi Hendrix at the festival.
Jerry Velez offers Woodstock was his first professional gig, but he didn’t
inform Hendrix of this fact. Leslie Aday reports Hendrix’s drug-induced
anxiety about going on stage at Woodstock and his post-performance
disappointment. Jerry Morrison claims he was the one who encouraged
Hendrix to play The Star Spangled Banner and Tom Law refers to
Hendrix’s rendition of the national anthem as being “a quintessential
piece of art.” Hendrix himself comments on the lack of attention to the
sound equipment and his dismay for large rock music festivals. Larry
Lee, Billy Cox, and Juma Sultan reflect upon the on-stage experience of
playing with Hendrix at the event.
261. Boyd, Joe. White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s. Serpent’s Tale,
2006.
Recollects episodes from the author’s long and diverse career in the music
business during the 1960s, when he worked with everyone from Muddy
Waters to Pink Floyd before moving on to produce motion picture
soundtrack albums. Relates his experience bringing the Incredible String
Band to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Describes his regret over
allowing the group to postpone their performance by one day due to
the inclement weather, thus moving them out of the acoustic lineup (e.g.,
Joan Baez, John Sebastian) and into the middle of the more heavy electric
bands (e.g., Canned Heat) where their set fell flat. Suggests the careers of
the Incredible String Band members could have been transformed if they
had played on Friday night at the festival, as originally planned.
262. Crosby, David, and Carl Gottlieb. Long Time Gone: The Autobiography
of David Crosby. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Utilizes a variety of voices to create an unique autobiography of David

Crosby. Reveals Crosby’s generally positive feelings regarding the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Explains Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
were “scared” when they took the stage because “the whole goddamn
music business was standing in a circle behind us,” noting everyone was
curious about this new super-group. Quotes David Geffen describing
his role in negotiating the inclusion of the group in the motion picture
Woodstock.
263. Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.

New York: Hyperion, 2005. https://www.scribd.com/doc/180427686/
Room-Full-of-Mirrors-a-Biography-of-Jimi-Hendrix-Charles-R-Cross
Presents a biography on the life of Jimi Hendrix. Notes Hendrix only

rehearsed the band he used at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair for
one week prior to the event. Tells the story of Hendrix and his band,
along with Neil Young, needing to commandeer a truck in order to
make it to the festival. Reprints Hendrix’s introductory remarks from
the festival’s stage. Quotes Al Aronowitz describing the performance of
The Star Spangled Banner as “the single greatest moment of the sixties.”
Mentions Hendrix’s attitude toward his rendition of the national anthem
as seeing it more of a musical exercise than a political manifesto. States
the performance has become part of the Zeitgeist of the sixties. Reprints
a poem Hendrix wrote about Woodstock.
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264. Downing, David. A Dreamer of Pictures: Neil Young the Man and His
Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.
Explores Neil Young’s life, politics, and aspirations. Mentions in a few

words Young’s ambivalence towards the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
and notes he refused to be filmed at the festival during his performance
with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Includes a discography of record
albums made by Neil Young as an individual artist and as part of a band
from 1967 to 1993.
265. Echols, Alice. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin.
New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Offers a biographical portrait of Janis Joplin. Relates Joplin’s efforts to

seek out a private place at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in order
to take illegal drugs. Describes her lackluster performance at the festival,
attributing it mostly to drugs and alcohol.
266. Gelb, Arthur. City Room. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003.
Represents the autobiography of Arthur Gelb, New York Times managing

editor. Chronicles his forty-five year career at the newspaper. Describes
how Gelb sent Barnard Collier to cover the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair, thinking it was going to be just another music festival, along the
lines of the Newport Folk Festivals. States, upon hearing reports of the
massive traffic jam leading to Max Yasgur’s farm, he assigned two more
reporters to cover the festival. Comments on the specialized, all-access,
treatment afforded exclusively to the trio of New York Times reporters,
stating the promoters “fed them champagne and lobster.” Also notes the
wide-spread use of LSD at the festival. Reports on forming a post-event
panel of attendees to discuss the significance of Woodstock, revealing the
heightened sense of community where everything “was understood to
be collective property.” Claims the coverage provided by the newspaper
crystalized and empowered the global counterculture community.
267. Glatt, John. Rage & Roll: Bill Graham and the Selling of Rock. New
York: Birch Lane Press, 1993.
Offers a biography on rock music impresario Bill Graham (1931–1991).

Provides insight into Graham’s involvement with the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Notes he was angered when the festival promoters started
signing many of the acts scheduled to perform at his Fillmore East
auditorium during the summer of 1969, fearing he would lose business
if fans were able to see all the acts in one August weekend. States the
solution agreed to by Michael Lang and Graham was to not announce the
Woodstock acts until after they had played the Fillmore East during the
summer. Claims John Morris hired many of the staff from the Fillmore
East to work the Woodstock festival. Lists some of the fees paid to the
acts. Describes how Graham negotiated getting Santana on the bill by
threatening to withdraw the Grateful Dead. Quotes Graham discussing
how Woodstock launched an era of stadium concerts and extraordinary
fees being paid to performers. Observes this led directly to the demise
of smaller concert venues such as the Fillmore East. Includes Graham’s
reaction to the motion picture Woodstock which includes a clip of Graham
articulating criticism of the event.
268. Goldberg, Danny. Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and
Roll Business. New York: Gotham, 2008.
Presents the autobiography of Danny Goldberg, music industry insider.

Describes Goldberg’s experience as a concert reviewer for Billboard
magazine assigned to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Confesses he
has difficultly separating his memory of the festival from the images
displayed in the motion picture Woodstock. Recalls the music as a
backdrop to “the transient but ineffable sense of hippie camaraderie.”
Mentions being compelled by the performance of Santana to make his
way to the front of the stage.
269. Graham, Bill, and Robert Greenfield. Bill Graham Presents: My Life
Inside Rock and Out. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Presents the autobiography of Bill Graham. Includes commentaries on

Graham’s involvement with the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Covers
his opposition to the festival, relationship with the promoters, and role
in getting acts booked for the event. Quotes numerous individuals,
including Graham, discussing his attendance and participation at
Woodstock. Notes the festival organizers “capitalized on the smarts”
of Fillmore East staff, including John Morris, Chip Monck, and Chris
Langhart. Graham refers to the Woodstock promoters as “rank amateurs”
who did not know what they were doing, but acknowledges no one had
attempted anything of this scale before. Discusses how Graham managed
to get Santana on the bill even though they had yet to release a record
album. Includes Graham’s negative comments on the event as excerpted
from the motion picture Woodstock. Claims Martin Scorsese directed the
filming of the festival more so than Michael Wadleigh because Scorsese
was located at the front and center of the stage. Reports Graham stating
his favorite performances at Woodstock were by The Who and Sly and
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the Family Stone. Graham also notes Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of The Star
Spangled Banner was “as creative a two minutes as you can probably find
in rock and roll.” Mentions Graham’s observations on how Woodstock
paved the way to a future of extremely large outdoor concerts.
270. Gravy, Wavy. Something Good for a Change: Random Notes on Peace
Thru Living. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Recounts moments from the author’s life. States the Hog Farm was
originally hired for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair only to prepare
the site (e.g., clear trails, dig fire pits), but when reporting for duty were
informed they would be serving as security for the festival. Describes
the Hog Farm’s free kitchen at the event. Explains how the author came
to be one of the persons giving the stage announcements. Fantasizes
about a “Woodstock World” built on the site of the original festival 100
years after the event. Offers those at the concert “rose up to our highest
common denominator and reflected it nationwide through the popular
press.” Expresses dismay the Woodstock generation ethos did not
fully materialize in American culture, but remains hopeful for future
generations.
271. Greenfield, Robert. Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1996.
Presents a series of short commentaries collected and arranged

chronologically. Quotes Owsley Stanley and Nick Scully describing the
Grateful Dead’s performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a
disaster due mostly to equipment problems.
272. Havens, Richie. They Can’t Hide Us Anymore. New York: Avon
Books, 1999.
Proclaims to not be an autobiography, but rather a book of impressions

and experiences. Contains stories about Richie Havens and those
persons who have affected his life. Begins with a description of Havens
being ushered by helicopter to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and
then shifts to recollections of his childhood. Returns to recalling the
Woodstock festival, its eighteen foot high stage, and the sea of humanity.
Describes how Havens came to be the first act to perform at the event as
a result of Michael Lang begging him to get on stage since no other acts
had arrived or were willing to go first. Shares his euphoric emotional
state during the performance. Explains the spontaneity behind his final
encore of Freedom/Motherless Child. Devotes some text to articulating the
meaning behind Woodstock and the sacredness Havens feels for the
location when he visits the site. Mentions various unsuccessful attempts

to recreate the spirit of the event through anniversary concerts. Foreword
by James Earl Jones.
273. Helm, Levon. This Wheel’s on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the
Band. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013.
Recounts the author’s life as a member of The Band. Describes how the
group came to play at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. States The
Band felt as if they were going into a war zone based on what they had
heard about the event from some of the first day’s performers. Shares
observations about the event. Lists the songs performed during The
Band’s set. Claims the group does not appear in the film or on the
record album because of disputes over compensation. Notes also some
disappointment with their set because Robbie Robertson’s “microphone
had been inadvertently left on, and he wasn’t much of a singer.”
274. Henderson, David. The Life of Jimi Hendrix: ‘Scuse Me while I Kiss the
Sky. London: Omnibus Press, 1990.
Provides an extensive biography of Jimi Hendrix. Mentions how Hendrix

became the closing act of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair almost by
default because, by this point in his career, no bands wanted to follow
his sets. Breaks down his performance in some detail. Observes the final
moments of Hendrix’s performance were “both sad and beautiful, almost
mournful yet exquisitely sculptured.” Comments on the generally held
disappointment with the sound recording of the festival, noting most of
Hendrix’s bandmates are essentially missing from the mix. This book is
a newer edition of the author’s Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian
Age (New York: Doubleday, 1978).
275. Jackson, Blair. Garcia: An American Life. New York: Penguin Books,
1999.
Offers the biography of Jerry Garcia. Describes Garcia’s experiences

at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Mentions how he wandered the
festival’s site under the influence of LSD. Contrasts the Woodstock
performance by the Grateful Dead with the mythology of Woodstock
where people helped each other survive the weekend and the music was
“transcendent.” Repeats the often reported self-criticism of the Grateful
Dead’s poor performance at the event. Suggests band members view
their set in hindsight with both horror and glee, wearing their failure at
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such an historic event as a badge of honor. Quotes Garcia remarking on

how everyone at Woodstock could sense the significance of the event as
it was unfolding.
276. Kaliss, Jeff. I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & The
Family Stone. New York: Backbeat Books, 2008.
Presents a biography of Sly & the Family Stone, and Sylvester Stewart
(Sly Stone) in particular. Points to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
as the group’s monumental breakout event. Describes the festival
experience from the perspective of the group’s members. Their manager,
David Kapralik, describes watching Sylvester Stewart perform as
“Icarus, his wings made of wax, and [the spotlight] was the sun he flew
too close to.” Claims both the motion picture Woodstock and the sound
recording, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, gave
a mythological status to the concert and the performers showcased
within, including Sly & the Family Stone. Foreword by Sylvester Stewart.
Preface by George Clinton. Includes a selected annotated discography.
277. Kennedy. The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV through
Rose-Colored Glasses. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2013.
Provides autobiographical account of Kennedy’s years working for

MTV as a VJ. Describes her experience covering Woodstock ’94 for MTV.
Relates her “all night journey” to discovery what was really happening
at the festival after dark. Reports her shock, awe, and disgust at the
public sodomy, excessive drug use, and lack of sanitation. Comments
“the pungent fecal fragrance was warning strung out revelers to head
for dryer ground.” Mentions her brief flirtation with Dave Navarro, just
prior to the Red Hot Chili Peppers taking the stage at the festival.
278. Keyser, Les. Martin Scorsese. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Presents a biography of Martin Scorsese, America’s “most accomplished

and most interesting filmmaker.” Describes concisely Scorsese’s
involvement with making the motion picture Woodstock. Notes Scorsese
spent his entire time at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on the stage,
filming the performances. Points out his arrival at the festival wearing
expensive cufflinks as emblematic of the filmmaker’s desire to be upper-
class while simultaneously obsessing on the “dreams of outsiders and
the music of iconoclasts and rebels.” Includes a biographical chronology
and a filmography.
279. Kindman, Michael “Mica”. My Odyssey through the Underground

Press. Ed. Ken Wachsberger. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University
Press, 2011.
Conveys the author’s life story and pivotal role in the development
of the counterculture’s underground press movement, from his 1963
enrollment at Michigan State University to his death from AIDS.
Presents sketchily Kindman’s experience at the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair. Originally planning to use the opportunity to sell underground
publications or, at least proselytize, he and his approximately twenty
colleagues spent their entire time at the festival “directing traffic in the
rain while one of the great cultural events of our generation went on
around us.” Reports they only heard the music dimly in the distance.
Forewords by Paul Krassner and Tommi Avicolli Meca.
280. Kornfeld, Artie. The Pied Piper of Woodstock. Delray Beach, FL: Spirit
of the Woodstock Nation, 2009.
Presents the autobiography of Artie Kornfeld, one of the original four

producers of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Shares extensively his
life and the events that led him to help create the Woodstock festival.
States the author was the youngest vice-president for Capitol Records
at age twenty-one and had composed more than seventy-five songs that
made it onto Billboard’s charts. Devotes most of the book to Woodstock.
Provides first-person account on the formation of Woodstock Ventures.
Explains the evolution from the town of Woodstock, to Wallkill, and
then on to Bethel with regard to deciding on and securing a site for
the festival. Offers some background on the movie deal and other
finances associated with the event. Offers commentary on every act that
performed at Woodstock. Shares numerous personal incidents which
occurred during the festival (e.g., a gun being pointed at the author’s
head). Reveals post-concert aftermaths. Contains photographs and
reproductions of news clippings, as well as lyrics from Kornfeld’s songs
and paintings by Jim Warren.
281. Lang, Michael. The Road to Woodstock. New York: Ecco, 2009.
Serves as a semi-autobiographical account of Michael Lang, one of the

original promoters of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Provides
the author’s inside and unique perspective on the origin of the idea,
planning of the event, and problems encountered along the way. Relies
on extensive use of quotes from key individuals associated with the
festival. Devotes chapters to each day of the concert and to the aftermath.
Includes a “Where Are They Now” appendix and the complete set lists
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of all the acts performing over the festival’s three days. Includes some
black and white photographs.
282. Langum, David J. William M. Kunstler: The most Hated Lawyer in

America. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Chronicles the career of William Kunstler, radical lawyer, director of the

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and defender of the Chicago
Seven. Reveals Kunstler’s attending the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
at the invitation of Abbie Hoffman. Quotes Kunstler’s description of
a self-revelation experienced at the festival, which was his inability to
identify with the youth of America.
283. Lesh, Phil. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead.
New York: Little, Brown, 2005.
Presents the autobiography of Phil Lesh, bass guitar player and founding
member of The Grateful Dead. Contains a description of the band’s
experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, including the endless
waiting to perform and backstage incidents including a confrontation
between Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Bill Graham. Discusses
problems with the stage set-up, equipment, and electricity during their
performance.
284. Marsh, Dave. Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1983.
Offers a biography of The Who and a study on “the world in which

the band lived and played.” Chronicles from 1960 to 1980. Conveys the
band’s experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes the group
did not share “the rhetoric of hippie pastoralism” so prevalent at the
event. Reveals backstage machinations over paying the bands for their
performances. Reports the frustrations The Who suffered over drug-
spiked catering and the lengthy delay before they took the stage, some of
which is used to explain the incidents of Pete Townshend kicking Michael
Wadleigh and knocking Abbie Hoffman off the platform. Overall, the
band members do not consider the performance at the festival to be one
of their better sets.
285. McDermott, John. Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight. New York:
Warner Books, 1992.
Presents a biography of Jimi Hendrix with a focus mostly on his years

as a performer. Reports the conditions under which Hendrix agreed
to perform at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (i.e., he would be the
headliner and close the festival as well as be the highest paid performer).
Quotes Eddie Kramer commenting on the conditions for making sound
recordings at the festival and the quality of Hendrix’s set. Describes the
backstage environment while Hendrix waited to take the stage. Suggests
he may have been dosed unknowingly with illegal drugs shortly before
his appearance. Recounts, song-by-song and in detail, Hendrix’s
uneven performance with a new under-rehearsed band. Notes Hendrix
“repeatedly apologized” to the audience through his performance.
Includes an annotated discography.
286. McDonough, Jimmy. Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography. Random

House, 2002.
Presents a detailed biography of Neil Young. Quotes Young commenting

concisely on his performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as
a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Quotes Young asserting
the group was playing more to the cameras than to the audience and
“Woodstock was a bullshit gig… we played fuckin’ awful.” Explains
in his own words why he did not let himself be filmed for the motion
picture Woodstock. Notes Young refused to play at Woodstock ’94, despite
a considerable financial offer to appear.
287. Mills, Randy K. Troubled Hero: A Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the
War at Home. Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Chronicles the story of Kenneth Kays, an anti-war college dropout

who attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was drafted into the
Vietnam War, earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, and eventually
took his own life after years of struggling with his involvement in the
military. Notes how his plans to attend Woodstock almost didn’t happen.
Details his time at the concert with his traveling companions. Describes
the impact of the festival as being both affirming and empowering.
Suggests the event also contributed to his drug addictions. Continues
by describing his life immediately after returning to his conservative
hometown.
288. Reineke, Hank. Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years. Lanham,

MD: Scarecrow Press, 2012.
Presents an unauthorized biography of Arlo Guthrie with particular

attention to the years 1967 through 1981. Focuses on his professional
career and musical output. Describes Guthrie’s summer of 1969, his set at
the Newport Folk Festival, and the events leading up to his appearance
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at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (for which he was paid $5,000).
Quotes Guthrie’s immediate reflections on Woodstock including his
observation that “it was probably one of the most wonderful moments
of my life.”
289. Roby, Steven. Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. New
York: Billboard Books, 2002.
Attempts to capture completely in text Jimi Hendrix’s creativity in order

to provide insights to his varied talents often overlooked. Discusses
Hendrix’s desire to be the closing act on Sunday night of the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair and the amount of money he made from the
performance and the film rights. Shares the disappointment he felt as
Sunday night turned into Monday morning while waiting to perform at
the festival. Discerns Hendrix’s manager at the time wanted to control
which songs Hendrix played at the concert. States how the auction of the
guitar Hendrix played at Woodstock, a Fender Stratocaster, increased
greatly the value of vintage guitars. Quotes Michael Wadleigh on the
experience of filming Hendrix’s Woodstock performance and the thrill
of being physically close to him as he launched into The Star Spangled
Banner. Includes a foreword by Noel Redding.
290. Rogan, Johnny. Neil Young: Zero to Sixty. London: Calidore Books,
2001.
Offers an extensive biography of Neil Young. States anticipated exposure

of performing at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was more important
to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young than the amount of money they would
be paid ($5,000). Mentions Young’s arrival at the event was by “truck
and riding shotgun with Jimi Hendrix.” Touches on the nervousness felt
by the relatively new group playing at such a large event, “the most
momentous gathering in the history of rock music,” and in front of their
peers. Notes the festival attendees were “forced to endure three days
of hell.” Observes Young’s detachment during his performance and
his refusal to be filmed during their set. Suggests in the long run this
allowed him a certain amount of mystique and the ability to maintain
a professional identity separate from the group. Discusses the record
album Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More and how
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s vocal performances had been “doctored
after the event.” States the included recording of Young’s song Sea of
Madness was actually from a performance at the Fillmore East. Claims
David Geffen would only allow footage of their set to be included in
the motion picture Woodstock if their studio recordings of the songs Long
Time Gone and Woodstock were used during the opening and closing
credits. Asserts this helped elevated the group’s legacy as the “living
embodiment” of the Woodstock ethos. Includes a discography.
291. Rowes, Barbara. Grace Slick: The Biography. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1980.
Offers an authorized biography of Grace Slick. Explains how Jefferson

Airplane learned of the plans for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
through Chip Monck. Describes Slick’s experiences at the event, from
swimming in the pool at the Holiday Inn where the acts were being
housed to roaming the festival site with Paul Kantner prior to the
start of the three-day concert. Notes Slick did not do much socializing,
keeping to herself and not sharing her room with anyone. Relays the
story of several of the managers representing the bands, including
Jefferson Airplane’s Bill Thompson, demanding their acts get paid prior
to performing. States the start of Jefferson Airplane’s set kept getting
pushed back until it was nine hours later and in the early morning before
they performed, after having spent the entire time sitting on the massive
stage waiting their turn. Quotes Slick complaining about the lack of
available bathroom facilities near backstage.
292. Selvin, Joel. Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. New York:
Avon Books, 1998.
Represents a collection of commentaries by individuals who have worked

with, known, or are related to Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone). Quotes band
member Larry Graham claiming the audience response while Sly and
the Family Stone were on stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
made the group “rise to a level we had never been musically.” Echoes
Gregg Errico’s description of the performer/audience energy-generating
dynamic filling the air in the middle of the night during their set.
293. Shankar, Ravi. Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. New
York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 1999.
Presents, in his own words, the life of Ravi Shankar. Mentions very
briefly the author’s experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Comments the audience reminded him “of the water buffalos you see
in India, submerged in the mud.” Reflects the music at the festival was
incidental to the overall phenomenon. Regrets having played at the event
because it was difficult to connect with the audience given the size and
the widespread drug use. Claims there was, in fact, violence and sexual
assaults at Woodstock and it was “not what people try to glorify it as
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today.” Edited and introduced by George Harrison. Includes a glossary

and a chronology.
294. Shapiro, Harry, and Caesar Glebbeek. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
Presents a biographical account on the life of Jimi Hendrix. Describes

the disorganization surrounding the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and
the resulting reluctance of Hendrix to honor his commitment. States
Hendrix’s performance at the festival was “loose and sprawling” mixed
with “some very fine moments” of solo improvisations. Discusses his
rendition of The Star Spangled Banner, noting the performance sent
shock waves throughout the audience. Delves into Hendrix’s political
leanings, suggesting he had a fatalistic viewpoint which influenced his
set in front of thousands of comfortably middle-class white Americans.
Includes an extensive discography with notes, a technical file describing
the instruments and equipment used by Hendrix throughout his career,
a lengthy chronology of key events, the Hendrix family tree, and a
bibliography/filmography.
295. Shapiro, Marc. Carlos Santana: Back on Top. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 2000.
Presents a biography of Carlos Santana. Tells the story of how Bill

Graham managed to get Santana booked to play the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair even though they were not well known and had not yet
released their first album. Mentions Carlos Santana’s excitement and
fear of playing before such a large audience. States Carlos Santana took
the stage in a drug-induced haze which increased his fear. Claims he
doesn’t remember much of the set until the end when they started to
play Soul Sacrifice. Includes a discography.
296. Sheehy, Gail. Daring: My Passages. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
Presents an autobiography of author Gail Sheeny. Includes a brief

description of her trip to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair with her
sister and a friend. Claims they were the only attendees not high on
drugs. States the festival brought her and her sister closer together.
297. Sloman, Larry. Steal this Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural
Revolution in America. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
Offers a biography on Abbie Hoffman using excerpted quotes from

individuals associated with him throughout his life. Describes Hoffman’s
attempts to shape the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as early as the
planning stages and his efforts to extract $65,000 from the promoters.
Shares stories from the festival about how Hoffman and his associates
interacted with the event’s staff and the filmmakers. Provides an
alternative version of how Hoffman came to be knocked of the stage by
Pete Townshend during the performance by The Who. Claims there was
a misunderstanding between Hoffman and The Who regarding whether
Hoffman had three minutes to make a political statement from the stage.
Foreword by Howard Stern. Includes a “Where are They Now?” section.
298. Sounes, Howard. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan. New
York: Grove Press, 2001.
Constructs a discerning biography of Bob Dylan built extensively on

interviews with more than 250 individuals. States sketchily the impact
of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on the town of Woodstock,
New York, some sixty miles from the concert. Quotes Bob Dylan’s
disparaging remarks about the festival. Provides some insight into
Dylan’s performance at Woodstock ’94, suggesting he showed a lack of
confidence before taking the stage, but the reaction to his performance
indicated “his music had transcended its time.” Claims Dylan was paid
$600,000 to appear at the 1994 event.
299. Taylor, Dallas. Prisoner of Woodstock. New York: Thunder’s Mouth

Press, 1994.
Presents the author’s autobiography as a Los Angeles-based musician

and drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Describes the aerial view
and first impressions of arriving to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
in a helicopter. Provides a detailed personalized account of the festival
from both a backstage and onstage perspective. Discusses his drug
induced anxieties about the event. Introductions by David Crosby and
Graham Nash.
300. Tiber, Elliot. Knock on Woodstock: The Uproarious, Uncensored Story

of the Woodstock Festival, the Gay Man Who made it Happen, and how He
Earned His Ticket to Freedom. New York: Festival Books, 1994.
Publishes the author’s first of three books to date on the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair. Intends to be a humorous and satirical account
of Tiber’s role in helping the event come into existence. Includes the
disclaimer “that fact and fiction, according to the absurd, twisted, world
of the author, are often unclear and any offence or implied derogatory
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statements about any person, living, dead, or in suspended animation, is

purely coincidental.” Foreword by Richie Havens.
301. Tiber, Elliot. Taking Woodstock. Garden City Park, NY: Square One,
2007.
Describes the author’s efforts to save his family’s motel and consequently
his participation in placing the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on Max
Yasgur’s farm. Tells the story through the lens of Tiber’s homosexuality.
Includes an epilogue, bringing his life and the events of the book up to
the present. Dedicated to Michael Lang and Andre Ernotte. This memoir
was made into a motion picture, Taking Woodstock (2009), directed by
Ang Lee.
302. Weinstein, Norman. Carlos Santana: A Biography. Santa Barbara,

CA: Greenwood Press, 2009.
Discusses the instrumental role Bill Graham played in getting Santana

onto the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair despite the band not
being known outside of the San Francisco area. Comments on the way
in which the motion picture Woodstock captured the “highpoint of the
band’s shining debut” in their performance of Soul Sacrifice. Reveals the
monumental influence of the performance on Carlos Santana’s career
and his acknowledgement of it. Includes a selected discography.
303. Weller, Sheila. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly
Simon — and the Journey of a Generation. New York: Atria, 2008.
Examines the careers of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon.
Explains why Joni Mitchell did not perform at the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair although she was touring at the time with Crosby, Stills &
Nash. Provides an overview of the festival and Mitchell’s perspective.
Describes how she came to write the song Woodstock.
304. Yasgur, Sam. Max B. Yasgur: The Woodstock Festival’s Famous Farmer.
Woodbury, NY: Katrina Woodstock, 2009.
Presents an admittedly subjective biography of Max Yasgur, the farmer

who leased his land for the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, written
by Max’s son. Reconstructs from memory the life of Max Yasgur and, in
particular, his introduction and involvement with the festival. Desires
to clarify “misleading statements, the half-truths, and the made up junk”
and to circumvent those who would use the Yasgur name to profit on the
Woodstock festival. Observes Max had little in common with Woodstock

attendees, including politics, music, and culture, but he did hold a strong
belief in their right to express themselves. Suggests his life may have
been shortened as a result of Woodstock.
305. Zimmer, Dave. Crosby, Stills, & Nash: The Authorized Biography.
New York: Da Capo Press, 2000.
Chronicles the history of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Claims no other group
performing at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair represented the cultural
ethos of the time more than Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mentions how
Joni Mitchell, who was touring with the band at the time, was denied
the opportunity to perform at the festival. States famous self-proclaimed
remark from the stage about the group being “scared shitless” was
about the scrutiny of all the music industry personnel watching them
perform from immediately off stage. Notes Neil Young’s refusal to be
filmed during the event. Quotes Joni Mitchell describing her motivation
for writing the song Woodstock. Includes a foreword by Graham Nash
and a discography.
Chapters
306. Glausser, Wayne. “Wavy Gravy.” Cultural Encyclopedia of LSD.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 163.
Summarizes in brief the biography of Wavy Gravy. Notes Wavy Gravy

referred to his security team at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as the
“Please Force.”
307. Kisseloff, Jeff. “Barry Melton: The Guitarist.” Generation on Fire:

Voices of Protest from the 1960s. Lexington, KY: University Press of
Kentucky, 2006. 194–209.
Continues the author’s work in the field of oral history. Profiles “those
Americans who stood up and said no to war, greed, racism, sexism,
homophobia, pollution, censorship, lame music, and bad haircuts.”
Serves as a biographical profile of Barry Melton. Provides a brief
first person account of the Country Joe & the Fish performance at the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair from an on-stage perspective. Offers
personal insight into a range of the late 1960s counterculture events,
personalities, and experiences.
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308. McDonald, Country Joe, and Dave Allen. “Afterword: Country

Joe McDonald Remembering Woodstock.” Remembering Woodstock. Ed.
Andy Bennett. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 146–153.
Uses the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a life-altering milestone

to provide a brief autobiographical account on the life of Country Joe
McDonald leading up to the festival, during the event itself, and living
with the resulting post-event effects. Reflects on the impact of the
Vietnam War on his generation. Includes a discography.
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309. Boyd, Todd. The New H.N.I.C. (Head Niggas in Charge): The Death
of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. New York: New York University
Press, 2002.
Discusses, in part, the use of the word “nigger” and “nigga” in hip-
hop context. Mentions the DMX performance at Woodstock ’99 with
a call-and-response with, in this case, a mostly white audience. Offers
Woodstock ’99 and the motion picture Any Given Sunday as two examples
in which these words of “endearment are used in ways other than to
affirm a strong sense of Black unity.” Claims hip-hop music at its core
is “this battle over language and representation.” Includes a glossary of
hip-hop terms.
310. Floyd, Samuel A. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting its History
from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Cites Jimi Hendrix’s interpretation of The Star Spangled Banner at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of his execution style
coming from the “practice and proclivities of numerous ancient and
modern African and African-American music makers.” Declares the
performance to be an important event in the history of American music.
Notes the way in which Hendrix comments on the topic of the song
using just his guitar playing without singing the lyrics.
311. Garofalo, Reebee. Rockin’ Out: Popular Music in the USA. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Serves as a textbook concentrating on the relationship between popular

music and mass culture. Asserts popular music is “a social and political
indicator that mirrors and influences the society in which we live.” Notes
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair offered “a fleeting pastoral
approximation” of the overall counterculture utopian vision. Touches
briefly on Woodstock ‘94 and Woodstock ‘99 mainly to provide and
discuss stark contrasts to the 1969 event.
312. Hopkins, Jerry, Jim Marshall, and Baron Wolman. Festival: The
Book of American Music Celebrations. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Combines reprints of articles and sections of books with numerous black

and white photographs to create a single narrative on American music
festivals. Includes bluegrass, rock, and folk festivals held in the 1960s.
In particular, notes that at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair there was
“forged a new definition of performance, wherein the performers and
audience are one and all normal barriers are removed.”
313. Jennings, Nicholas. Before the Gold Rush: Flashbacks to the Dawn of
the Canadian Sound. Toronto, Canada: Viking, 1997.
Offers a history of Canadian music in the 1960s, where “bands existed in

their home towns on the strength of their fan clubs and word-of-mouth
reputations.” Mentions in brief the Canadian musicians who performed
at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair (Neil Young, David Clayton-
Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears, and members of The Band). Quotes
Clayton-Thomas explaining how the festival was not the best venue for
communicating the subtleties of his group’s music. Notes by having
performed at an event that took on mythical importance, Blood, Sweat &
Tears experienced a surge in popularity as a touring act.
314. McMichael, Joe, and Jack Lyons. The Who Concert File. London:
Omnibus Press, 1997.
Documents every performance by The Who; sometimes including

specific venues, set lists, and commentaries. Remarks on the overall
negative experience for the band of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Mentions particularly strong performances of some songs during their
set. Recounts Peter Townshend hitting Abbie Hoffman over the head
with a guitar during the show. Contains numerous photographs of the
group and memorabilia, such as concert posters and tickets. Foreword
by Peter Townshend.
315. Murray, Charles Shaar. Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-
War Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Explores the life of, and world around, Jimi Hendrix through an
examination of his music. Claims Hendrix’s performance at the
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Woodstock Music and Art Fair as captured in the motion picture

Woodstock “defined what Woodstock was about for the rest of the
world.” Declares his rendition of The Star Spangled Banner was epic,
comparing Hendrix to John Coltrane and describing the performance as
“a compelling musical allegory of a nation tearing itself apart.” Provides
a description of the allegorical references.
316. Myers, Marc. Why Jazz Happened. Berkeley, CA: University of

California Press, 2013.
Presents an extensive history of jazz music, including all of the social

forces that have driven its evolution. Delves into the impact of electronic
music and the influences of the sound and lighting systems that emerged
with the advent of large outdoor concerts and music festivals. Details
Bill Hanley’s role in designing the sound system used at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Articulates the thinking behind the massive towers
that held the speaker system and the last-minute changes required to
accommodate a much larger than expected audience, such as needing
to boost the sound levels without creating distortion. Notes a change in
audience attitudes toward music as a result of the extended performances
at Woodstock. Suggests attendees came to believe “longer songs and
solos were musical extensions of their own rebellions and anxieties.”
Contends all of this influenced greatly the presentation of jazz music.
317. Pollock, Bruce. By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock ‘n’
Roll Revolution of 1969. New York: Backbeat Books, 2009.
Proclaims 1969 to have been “a year of radical and profound personal

risks, changes, and choices in the way music was perceived, written about,
experienced, exploited, played, and disseminated.” Scatters throughout
the text first-hand accounts of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair from
musicians who performed at the festival. Includes interview quotes from
Richie Havens and John Sebastian discussing their performances at the
event.
318. Santelli, Robert. Sixties: A Listener’s Guide. Chicago: Contemporary

Books, 1985.
Includes an “overview of every major rock category that figured

prominently in the sixties” as well as brief biographies of selected
musicians. Notes whether a performer appeared at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Claims the performance at the festival of I’m Going
Home by the group Ten Years After “may be the fastest rock guitar solo
recorded in the sixties.” Includes the author’s choices for the top twenty-
five albums of the decade.
319. Unterberger, Richie. Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock’s Flight from Haight-
Ashbury to Woodstock. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, 2003.
Highlights the evolution of folk-rock music in the latter half of the

1960s. Observes folk-rock musicians at the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair held their own against big rock acts, such as The Who and Jimi
Hendrix. Explores the openness of the counterculture to folk music.
Describes acoustic and semi-acoustic performances by Richie Havens,
Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Arlo
Guthrie, the Incredible String Band, and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young.
Also references Woodstock performances that were born from the folk
tradition, including the sets by Jefferson Airplane and Ten Years After.
Includes an annotated discography.
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320. Allen, Dave. “A Public Transition: Acoustic and Electric
Performances at the Woodstock Festival.” Remembering Woodstock. Ed.
Andy Bennett. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 111–126.
Argues both acoustic (rural) and electric (urban) music lived equally
within the context of popular music during the 1960s, up to the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair which was “almost the last very public celebration
of the rural within popular music” and the last occasion where acoustic
and electric acts shared the stage equally. Notes Country Joe McDonald
performed twice at the festival, once as a solo acoustic act and once
with his electric rock band. Illustrates the premise using McDonald’s
performances (as represented in the motion picture Woodstock) and their
subsequent impact on his career. Provides a brief history of McDonald’s
evolution as a musician, from acoustic to electric. Questions whether
acoustic music still has any significance in contemporary popular music.
321. Bordowitz, Hank. “From Monterey Pop to Woodstock to Altamont:

Innocence Found and Lost.” Turning Points in Rock and Roll: The Key
Events that Affected Popular Music in the Latter Half of the 20th Century.
New York: Citadel Press, 2004. 155–171.
Traces the history of large-scale rock festivals from the charming Monterey
International Pop Festival in 1967 through the counterculture’s utopian
Woodstock Music and Art Fair to the violence of the Altamont Speedway
concert, the latter two both held in 1969. Claims the Woodstock festival
was “the highwater mark of the rising tide of utopian spirit started at
Monterey.” Notes the decline of such ambitious concerts in America that
followed and the rise of the same in Europe. Continues by discussing
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the traveling caravan Lollapalooza and the Lilith Fair tours that emerged
in the 1990s. Explores an underline theme of the evolving relationship
between art and commerce.
322. Clarke, Eric F. “Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Star Spangled Banner’.” Ways of

Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning.
Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2005. 48–61. https://doi.
org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195151947.003.0003
Asserts Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair articulates a history-making musical
protest of the Vietnam War. Traces the impact of the sounds themselves,
as opposed to the circumstances of the delivery and/or the political
projections of those interpreting the meaning of the event. Draws an
analysis from the sound recording so as not to be influenced by the
imagery in the motion picture Woodstock. Continues with a second-
by-second breakdown of the performance, describing musical notes
and how they are rendered throughout the performance. Highlights
Hendrix’s insertion of “Taps” (a bugle call played at dusk, during flag
ceremonies, and at military funerals by the United States armed forces)
into the national anthem. Claims nationalism and counterculture are
both “simultaneously and antagonistically specified in the sounds of
the performance.” Includes a transcription musical score of Hendrix’s
performance of The Star Spangled Banner.
323. Daley, Mike. “Land of the Free: Jimi Hendrix―Woodstock Festival,

August 18, 1969.” Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time.
Ed. Ian Inglis. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. 52–57.
Recounts in detail Jimi Hendrix’s set at the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Observes Hendrix’s performance has come to fully represent the
Woodstock festival “as a cultural signpost in rock history.” Argues
the significance of Hendrix’s appearance at the concert has been a
relatively recent development and not evident in the press immediately
following the event. Provides insight into Hendrix’s preparations for
the festival, including his desire to take his music in a new direction
and the associated auditioning of new musicians. Describes the actual
performance as “loose and somewhat confused.” Delves into a moment
by moment description of Hendrix’s rendering of The Star Spangled
Banner. Claims his presentation of the national anthem revealed a
“more conflicted view of the war in Vietnam than would be suggested
by many of those who have offered interpretations.” Claims Hendrix’s
appearance at Woodstock symbolizes both the free-spirit of the 1960s
and the “troubled heart of the anti-war movement.”
324. Fast, Susan, and Kip Pegley. “Introduction.” Music, Politics, and
Violence. Eds. Susan Fast and Kip Pegley. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 2012. 1–33.
Reveals how music and violence entwine. Suggests music is a “rich

medium for perpetuating symbolic violence, which, in turn, often
becomes part of a much larger systemic oppression.” Questions what
can be learned about intentionality of a “translation’s transformative
power to prompt political change” when examining lyrics and music.
Points to Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair as a prime example. Observes in Hendrix’s
performance a “use of extreme distortion and feedback wreaking
timbral havoc on the melody” and, thus, framing the national anthem
in a new way. Suggests Hendrix transformed the song from celebratory
to protest by virtue of digressing from the melody, inserting feedback,
incorporating Taps, and conjuring a feeling of chaos and violence.
Debates Hendrix’s exact intentions behind such an interpretation by
offering conflicting evidence. Concludes that regardless of intent, one
may hear the performance “informed by a Zeitgeist and part of a larger
critique of American involvement in the Vietnam War.” Claims this is but
one example of how music is used to “articulate notions of otherness.”
325. Hicks, Bob. “Jimi Hendrix: A Memorial (Northwest Passage,

29th September 1970).” The Jimi Hendrix Companion: Three Decades of
Commentary. Ed. Chris Potash. New York: Schirmer, 1996. 207–210.
Compiles previously published articles about Jimi Hendrix. In an item

published shortly after Hendrix’s death from Northwest Passage, an
underground newspaper, Hicks comments on Hendrix’s performance
at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Claims Hendrix reached the
height of his artistic maturity at the festival. Describes Hendrix’s set as
“a vision of cultural crisis, of structural breakdown and chaos.” Observes
his performance of The Star Spangled Banner was “the vast underbelly
of a culture sinking.” Questions whether the audience understood the
meaning of the performance.
326. Jopling, Norman. “Man, Myth or Magic? Jimi Hendrix is Back, and
Happy, and Talking...” Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters
with Jimi Hendrix. Ed. Steven Roby. Chicago: Chicago Review Press,
2012. 289–292.
Transcribes interview with Jimi Hendrix from September 12, 1970 in

which he mentions his favorite performances from the Woodstock
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Music and Art Fair (i.e., Sly and the Family Stone, Rickie Havens, and
Ten Years After).
327. Nunez, Sigrid. “Woodstock at Max Yasgur’s Farm: Bethel, New

York, August 15–17, 1969.” The Show I’ll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive their
most Memorable Concertgoing Experience. Ed. Sean Manning. Cambridge,
MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. 52–57.
Relates the author’s experience attending, and thoughts regarding, the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Asserts she “went to Woodstock on
the back of a motorcycle driven by a Vietnam vet who was on acid.”
Describes how unprepared she was for the weather, the crowd, and
lack of food. Recounts the amount of drug use among her traveling
companions. Comments on her favorite performers (e.g., Janis Joplin, Sly
and the Family Stone), but acknowledges that for years she remembered
the performance of Ten Years After only to realize much later they
performed after she had left. Attributes this to having seen the band
play in the motion picture Woodstock. States initially it was a notable
distinction among peers to have been at the festival, but it has now come
to mainly remind her of her progressing age.
328. Perone, James E. “Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack

and More (1970).” The Album: A Guide to Pop Music’s most Provocative,
Influential, and Important Creations. Ed. James E. Perone. Santa Barbara,
CA: Praeger, 2012.
Critiques track-by-track the sound recording Woodstock: Music from the

Original Soundtrack and More, released in 1970 and loosely served as the
soundtrack album to motion picture Woodstock. Notes although some of
the acts featured on the recording are not shown in the film, the album
represents “one of the most important live albums of the rock era.”
Comments on the re-sequencing of performances away from the actual
chronology of events. Offers the record’s producer, Eric Blackstead, did
this as well as adding stage announcements and crowd noise in order to
convey to the listener the emotional experience of the festival. Includes a
brief sidebar on rock music festivals of the 1960s.
329. Sullivan, Denise. “Rainbow Politics, Woodstock, and Revolution

Rock.” Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-Hop. Chicago:
Lawrence Hill Books, 2011. 99–108.
Bookends an essay on the significance of the Woodstock Music and Art

Fair to the black experience with thoughts on Richie Havens and Jimi
Hendrix. Provides Haven’s perspective on the festival and its relationship

to his life. Notes his performance at the event was so dynamic as to allow
him to sustain a lifelong career as a performer. Alternatively, Hendrix’s
showing at the event suggested a beginning of the end. Discusses
Hendrix’s relationship with both black and white audiences. Suggests
“Jimi Hendrix was a freedom rider” despite his apolitical image. Notes
that performers of color (Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Carlos
Santana) triumphed at Woodstock. Claims Santana’s performance “was
in essence the moment that birthed the Latino rock movement.”
330. “United Block Association Press Conference.” Hendrix on Hendrix:

Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix. Ed. Steven Roby. Chicago:
Chicago Review Press, 2012. 215–218.
Transcribes a Jimi Hendrix press conference from August 1969 held

to promote an upcoming benefit concert for Harlem’s United Block
Association. Hendrix comments on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair,
including his performance of The Star Spangled Banner, the wide spread
drug use and lack of violence at the festival, and the implications for
future musical gatherings.
331. Walters, Barry. “Nü Metal and Woodstock ‘99.” The Rock History
Reader. Ed. Theo Cateforis. New York: Routledge, 2007. 313–315.
Draws from the author’s Washington Post article analyzing the events
at Woodstock ’99 (Barry Walters, “The Arson is Blowin’ in the Wind:
Why Woodstock ’99 Devolved into a Frat-Style Free-For-All,” The
Washington Post, August 8, 1999, p. G1). Notes the mythology of the
original Woodstock Music and Art Fair was shattered by the Woodstock
’99 audiences’ desire for “angry, aggressive music.” Suggests the music
by such acts as Limp Bizkit, Korn, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers both
fueled and reflected the psychology behind the riots, looting, sexual
assaults, and mayhem.
Articles
332. Abril, Carlos R. “Functions of a National Anthem in Society and
Education: A Sociocultural Perspective.” Bulletin of the Council for
Research in Music Education 172 (2007): 69–87.
Examines The Star Spangled Banner in its role as a national anthem.

Provides the historical background and uses “various sociocultural
conceptualizations of music and social functions as guideposts around
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which to wrap historical and autobiographical narratives” in order to

reject “absolutist portrayals” in school music curriculum. Points to Jimi
Hendrix’s performance of the piece at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
as being a representation of the freedom to “ascribe personal meaning
to the song in transmission and appropriation.” Notes at the time the
performance was considered by many as too severe a transgression to
be accepted. Observes now the same performance is considered ground
breaking and profound.
333. Araújo, Samuel M. “Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil.” Latin
American Music Review 9.1 (1988): 50–89. https://doi.org/10.2307/779999
Uses the “crowd rain chant” from the motion picture Woodstock as a brief
point of reference in exploring the evolution of brega, a form of Brazilian
popular music grounded in socio-economic roots. Insists “brega opens a
quite provoking field to those interested in the ways music expresses the
social dynamics within the global village.”
334. Auslander, Philip. “Good Old Rock and Roll: Performing the
1950s in the 1970s.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15.2 (2003): 166–194.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533–1598.2003.00003.x http://homes.lmc.
gatech.edu/~auslander/publications/good old rock and roll.pdf
Explores two poles of the ideological continuum between authenticity

and inauthenticity in rock music culture. Uses the music group Sha
Na Na and the musician John Lennon to represent the two extremes.
Observes John Lennon’s performances of rock and roll music from the
1950s are authentic because he had a personal biographical connection
to the music. Claims Sha Na Na’s performance at the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair served to anticipate a “historical discontinuity between
countercultural rock and what came after it.” States the performance was
a harbinger of change in popular music culture, anticipating glam and
punk rock. Discusses the “historical irony” of Sha Na Na’s appearance
at Woodstock. Sums the significance by observing, unlike all the other
acts at the festival, Sha Na Na presented a theatrical and constructed
personae without an “authentic personal and historical connection to
rock and roll.” Part II of the article continues by discussing instances in
which musicians of the 1960s with authentic connections to the music
of the 1950s created alter egos in order to perform rock and roll music
(e.g., Frank Zappa; Beach Boys). Notes this places them between the two
poles. Connects the ideological continuum to that of modernism versus
postmodernism.
335. Chang, Vanessa. “Records that Play: The Present Past in Sampling
Practice.” Popular Music 28.2 (2009): 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1017/
s0261143009001755
Examines the theoretical basis of discourse surrounding the practice

of sampling and posits the sampled is a space where “the past both
defines the present and is effaced by it.” Refers to previous scholarship
regarding Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Reports that by referencing the
composition Taps through integration into his rendition of the national
anthem, Hendrix created a sign “encoded with a kind of external logic,
its meaning determined by its context.” Claims Hendrix was able to
subvert the semiotic system of the national anthem and “the referent
of the cited song, the nation, is present, even as its internal nationalistic
structure is made absent.” Asserts sampling makes disparate source
material coherent and serves as a cultural metaphor with “musical space
doubling for social space.” Concludes “sampling creates a tradition
that involves the past without deferring to its structures and limitations,
restoring a revised mode of agency to the practice,” thus evoking
nostalgia without recreating the event.
336. Clague, Mark. “‘This is America’: Jimi Hendrix’s Star Spangled

Banner Journey as Psychedelic Citizenship.” Journal of the Society
for American Music 8.4 (2014): 435–478. https://doi.org/10.1017/
s1752196314000364
Characterizes Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner

at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as being “an expression of
transcendent political resistance” representing “the most powerful
symbol of rock’s potential for protest.” Analyzes in detail Hendrix’s
“artistic engagement” with the national anthem by tracing his
history of playing, recording, writing about, and discussing it. Looks
comprehensively at two years of performances, including stage banter,
to gain understanding of Hendrix’s political perspective and rhetoric.
Delves into Hendrix’s personal military history (he enlisted in 1961).
Reveals it was not planned Hendrix would play the national anthem at
Woodstock, yet it has become one the most famous performances in the
history of rock music. Suggests he added it to the set as a “celebration of
possibility” inspired by his positive experience at the festival. Describes
Hendrix’s rendition of the The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock in great
detail, breaking the performance down almost note by note. Contrasts
this event with previous live renderings of the piece, building the case
that on this particular day the musician was making a statement of
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affirmation rather than protest. Recounts Hendrix’s interview about the

performance shortly afterwards on The Dick Cavett Show. Comments on
how he enhanced the tune with “increasing amounts of ornamentation”
for post-Woodstock renderings. Concludes by noting how the Woodstock
version, having been highlighted as the capstone performance in the
motion picture Woodstock, has become engrained in American culture as
a melding of both the artistic and social imagination.
337. Gracyk, Theodore. “Meanings of Songs and Meanings of Song

Performances.” Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism 71.1 (2013): 23–33.
Purports to demonstrate “the interplay of semantics and pragmatics”

in generating differing meanings by different performances. Offers
meanings of songs are fixed, but each performance of a song can have
different meanings. Contends musical performances are rich in meaning
due to the semantic information associated with musical structure, thus
creating numerous possibilities for pragmatic contextual interpretation.
Highlights the Jimi Hendrix performance of The Star Spangled Banner at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as one example of how a performance
can offer new connotations without altering the intended meaning of
the music being performed. Hendrix made a political statement with
his rendering of the composition, thus exploiting a cultural context to
“generate pragmatic implications that are not part of the musical work.”
338. Henderson, David. “Jimi Hendrix Deep within the Blues and Alive
Onstage at Woodstock — 25 Years After Death.” African American Review
29 (1995): 213–216. https://doi.org/10.2307/3042293
Reviews Jimi Hendrix musicianship as a blues guitarist and comments

on his performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes near
the end of his performance, Hendrix was “delving deeply into the
improvisational mode where blues and jazz truly intersect.” Comments
on the band accompanying Hendrix during his Woodstock gig.
Contends his talent for playing the blues placed him “well within the
pantheon of blues greats,” including Albert King, Muddy Waters and
Elmore James. Reproduces some poetic text written by Hendrix at the
Woodstock festival.
339. Kaufmann, Donald. “Woodstock: The Color of Sound.” Journal of

Ethnic Studies 2.3 (1974): 32–49.
Argues the Woodstock Music and Art Fair resolved the question of
African-American music acceptance into mainstream popular culture.
Claims the festival demonstrated African-American music “had finally
learned to coexist with white electronics” resulting in a “mulatto sound.”

Delves into an extensive history of black music in America. Articulates
the ways in which white America has periodically discovered black
music and integrated the sounds into its own popular music. Predicts
once the Woodstock generation comes of age and assumes political
power, cultural assumptions about distinctions between black music
and white music will be gone.
340. Konečni, Vladimir J., Rebekah A. Wanic, and Amber Brown.

“Emotional and Aesthetic Antecedents and Consequences of Music-
Induced Thrills.” American Journal of Psychology 120.4 (2007): 619–643.
https://doi.org/10.2307/20445428 http://konecni.ucsd.edu/pdf/2007 K.,
W., and B., Thrills-Chills AJP.pdf
Utilizes a recording of Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) performing The Star

Spangled Banner at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to conduct controlled
experiments exploring “the significance of music-induced thrills.” Uses
various aesthetics (e.g., national anthems, objects, paintings) to increase
the thrill response to the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) and
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). Concludes “thrills may often accompany
profound aesthetic experiences and provide their physiological
underpinning, yet themselves be of limited psychological significance.”
341. Manderson, Desmond. “Towards Law and Music.” Law and

Critique 25.3 (2014): 311–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-014-9142-8
Assesses “scholarly directions in the interdisciplinary field of law and

music.” Illustrates the “vocabulary” of music through the example of
Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Contends Hendrix performed a juxtaposition
between America’s polar demographics (the old and the new) and
political ideologies at that time in history. Notes through his music
Hendrix was able to contrast “patriotism with violence, and victimhood
with aggression.” Suggests he was articulating legal subjectivity through
his music.
342. Marom, Maya K. “Spiritual Moments in Music Therapy: A

Qualitative Study of the Music Therapist’s Experience.” Qualitative
Inquiries in Music Therapy 1 (2004): 37–76. http://www.barcelonapublishers.
com/resources/QIMTV1/QIMT2004Volume1_Marom.pdf
Investigates “spiritual moments in different music therapy settings”

in order to examine the “personal experience of the music therapists
involved in them.” Utilizes a qualitative research methodology. Explains
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therapists were asked to describe sessions in which the “therapeutic

process became spiritual in nature.” Examines, among other things,
the role of music in these experiences. Offers one example in which
a client was frightened to hear the entire recording of Jimi Hendrix’s
performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Notes following a session in which therapist and client listened to
the entire piece, therapist was surprised to “witness a client have a life-
changing spiritual experience to the sounds of this music.” Concludes
any type of music can create a transformative experience, as long as it
has relevance to the individual.
343. Maxile, Horace J., Jr. “Signs, Symphonies, Signifyin(g): African-

American Cultural Topics as Analytical Approach to the Music of Black
Composers.” Black Music Research Journal 28.1 (2008): 124–138.
Calls for more scholarship on black composers in terms of “criticism,

interpretation, and analysis of concert works.” Focuses on reviewing
and expanding upon current theories in order to address the “analysis/
interpretation gap” regarding concert performances by African
Americans. Points to Jimi Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled
Banner at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of “signifying”
(e.g., satire, reverence, politics). Contends Hendrix transformed the
national anthem with bent tones, wide vibrato, etc., thus utilizing
“African-American cultural emblems.” As a result, Hendrix addressed
the social and political climate of the late 1960s.
344. Silverman, Alan. “Music at Woodstock.” AES: Journal of the Audio

Engineering Society 55.4 (2007): 308–309.
Reports on a meeting of the New York Section of the Audio Engineering

Society (AES) held at the Digital Cinema Dubbing Stage (December 12,
2006). Highlights a behind-the-scenes technical history of the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Festival technical director Chris Langhart, sound
contractor Bill Hanley, promoter Michael Lang, and on-site staff John
Chester provide first-person descriptions and explanations. Comments
on segments from the motion picture Woodstock used to illustrate the
sound recording techniques utilized at the concert.
345. Turino, Thomas. “Signs of Imagination, Identity, and Experience:

A Peircian Semiotic Theory for Music.” Ethnomusicology 43.2 (1999):
Offers Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotic theory “as an avenue for

understanding musical affectivity, different parts of ourselves and
experiences, and the special potentials of music for the construction

of personal and social identities.” In particular, suggests the theory
is “revolutionary for understanding the social effects of music, art,
expressive culture, and people’s myriad ways of experiencing the
world.” As one musical example of creative indexing, the author points
to Jimi Hendrix’s rendering of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Notes the use of guitar feedback and distortion
(counterculture ethos) during the performance is juxtaposed with the
composition’s “nationalistic contexts” (patriotic ethos), thus “shifts
of accent, rhythm, and phrasing, and the use of rock-rift conventions”
express sarcasm.
346. Waksman, Steve. “Black Sound, Black Body: Jimi Hendrix, the
Electric Guitar, and the Meanings of Blackness.” Popular Music and
Society 23.1 (1999): 75–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007769908591726
Considers in this lengthy article Jimi Hendrix’s relationship to “blackness”

as a category of representation, in terms of his music, performance style,
and technology. Contrasts Hendrix’s interpretation of The Star Spangled
Banner at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair with a performance of the
same tune earlier in the same year. Claims the Woodstock rendition
of the national anthem was “a full-fledged reinvention of it, such that
the original can never be heard quite the same way again.” Suggests in
breaking from a traditional performance of this particular song, Hendrix
interjected a stylistic evocation of African music. Considers also the
intersections of race and gender in Hendrix’s style of performance.
Videos
347. Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock. Prod. Janie Hendrix and John
McDermott. Experience Hendrix L.L.C., 2010.
Updated Blu-ray edition of a video first released in the 1990s. Features

all of the existing film footage of Jimi Hendrix at the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair, re-edited and presented in the original performance
sequence. Includes a second disc of interviews with the musicians and
others, alternate camera angles of the performance, and a post-concert
interview with Jimi Hendrix (September 3, 1969) discussing The Star
Spangled Banner.
348. Woodstock: The Lost Performances. Warner Home Video, 1991.
Contains over an hour’s worth of Woodstock Music and Art Fair

performances not seen in the original 1970 motion picture, Woodstock.
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Some of the acts included here were not featured in the original film.
Highlights are songs by Janis Joplin, Melanie, Tim Hardin, The Band,
Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Canned Heat and others.
Compiled for the 20th anniversary of the festival.
Recordings
349. Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More. Cotillion,
1970.
Contains the first release of selected live recordings of music, stage

announcements, and crowd noise from the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Followed by the album Woodstock Two, released in 1971. In 1994
additional musical performances were added for a 4 CD box set release,
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. In 2009, more content was
added and released as a 6 CD box set, Woodstock―40 Years On: Back to
Yasgur’s Farm.
350. Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. Atlantic, 1994.
Presents the third release of selected live recordings of music from the
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Follows the albums Woodstock:
Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970) and Woodstock Two
(1971). Contains additional musical performances packaged in a 4 CD
box set release. Followed by a 6 CD box set, Woodstock―40 Years On: Back
to Yasgur’s Farm (2009). Program notes by David Fricke.
351. Woodstock―40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm. Rhino, 2009.
Presents the fourth release of live recordings of music from the 1969
Woodstock music festival. Follows the albums Woodstock: Music from the
Original Soundtrack and More (1970), Woodstock Two (1971), and Woodstock:
Three Days of Peace and Music (1994). Contains additional musical
performances, all packaged in a 6 CD box set release.
352. Woodstock Two. Atlantic, 1971.
Presents the second release of selected live recordings of music from the
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Follows the album Woodstock: Music
from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970). Followed by a 4 CD box set
release, Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music (1994) and then by a 6
CD box set, Woodstock―40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm (2009).
Film
Books
353. Biskind, Peter. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-
Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1998.
Offers a history on the coming of age of the counterculture’s most

prominent filmmakers. Covers all the major players and their
contributions. Includes Fred Weintraub recalling briefly how he
managed to get the motion picture Woodstock produced in an era when
most, if not all, rock concert films had been less than successful. Notes
as a result Weintraub became “the executive in charge of alternative
lifestyles” at Warner Bros.
354. Brode, Douglas. From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the
Counterculture. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Uses the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an allegorical reference to the
1960s counterculture representing an end product of American youth
raised on Disney films. Admits this runs counter to the conventional
wisdom of Disney projects avoiding controversy in exchange for
commercial gain. Posits Disney films taught the youth of America to
worship Plato’s “Good” and this was manifested in the behaviors of
Woodstock attendees. Provides a textual analysis of specific Disney
films, suggests an oeuvre expressing “the single imagination of the
auteur,” and conducts a socio-political evaluation of the oeuvre within
a historical context. Shows how Disney films introduced themes which
later came to define the counterculture, such as pacifism and “return to
nature” virtues.
355. Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray. Hollywood Films of the Seventies: Sex,
Drugs, Violence, Rock ‘n’ Roll & Politics. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
Discusses, in part, the motion picture Woodstock as being “profoundly

ambivalent, containing hints of dark pessimism buried within its
professed ethos of affirmation.” Questions whether the film, along with
other similar “youth-cult” cinema such as Gimme Shelter, Easy Rider and
Zabriskie Point, turned sentimental nostalgia into a marketing concept.
Explores the behind-the-scenes murky acquisition of film rights for
Woodstock and the machinations of obtaining a suitable Motion Picture
Association of America (MPAA) rating for the movie. Covers other
controversies associated with Woodstock, mainly focusing on issues
of commercial exploitation. Continues by noting all of this became
“overshadowed by the blast of moral indignation” with the release of the
motion picture Gimme Shelter by the Maysles brothers.
356. Denisoff, R. Serge, and William D. Romanowski. Risky Business:

Rock in Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1991.
Discusses “rockumentaries” (rock music film documentaries), from

The T.A.M.I. Show through Imagine: John Lennon. Offers insight into the
particular business deal that resulted ultimately in the motion picture
Woodstock. Comments on the critical and financial success of the film.
Provides a history of the movie’s commercial life. Contrasts the film with
the motion picture Gimme Shelter. Includes commentary on other motion
pictures such as Monterey Pop, Let It Be, The Concert for Bangla Desh, Stop
Making Sense, and Rattle and Hum.
357. Friedman, Lawrence S. The Cinema of Martin Scorsese. New York:

Continuum, 1997.
Chronicles the career of Martin Scorsese. Refers to the motion picture

Woodstock as “arguably the greatest concert film ever made.” States
the movie’s director, Michael Wadleigh, hired Scorsese as an assistant
director and supervising editor. Claims the technical accomplishments
of the film have been mostly ignored. Suggests the real success of the
movie is due to Scorsese’s editing. Lists the “brilliantly edited sequences”
as being those performances by Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Sly and the Family
Stone, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Demonstrates the high quality
editing skills of Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker by citing as contrast
the mostly unedited Jimi Hendrix sequence added to the “director’s cut”
version of the film.
358. Grant, Barry Keith. The Hollywood Film Musical. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Presents first a “concise history of the genre and an overview of the

critical debates about” film musicals. Offers both historical and critical
overviews, followed by chapters devoted to the analysis of specific
movies. Includes an in depth examination of the motion picture
Woodstock. Notes the film was edited using 1,210 hours of footage. States
documentaries are constructed representations and, therefore, claims
Woodstock is not simply a random assemblage of scenes but rather a
depiction of “the musical expression of the counter-culture’s rejection of
middle-class values and lifestyle in favor of a more open and accepting
society.” Observes how the film “builds a sense of community through a
resistance to the Vietnam War,” celebrates sexual liberation, and creates
unity in the face of, literally, a gathering storm. Comments on how, at the
same time, the filmmakers seem aware the festival’s “utopian community
was an ephemeral achievement” and not possible to perpetuate.
359. Kato, M. T. From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and

Popular Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Observes the motion picture Woodstock not only captured the

performances of musicians, but also “captured the cultural milieu” of
the youth movement unfolding with the event. Asserts the film also
attempted to contain symbolically the counterculture movement, best
represented in the portrayal of Jimi Hendrix’s performance. Claims
Hendrix’s use of a new band at the festival, musicians specifically
selected for freestyle jamming, was a “sincere tribute to the original
motive and intent of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.” Believes
Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner “offered a concrete
reference point to which the totality of Woodstock was dedicated and
upon which the counterculture as a whole was founded.” States the way
in which Hendrix’s set was filmed and edited for the motion picture,
essentially excluding the other members of the band and the audience,
was “meant to be a eulogy for the rebellious souls of the counterculture.”
Suggests the “politics of cinematography” deployed in the film was a
corporate strategy intent on containing the counterculture in a specific
time and place.
360. Kellner, Douglas. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and

Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1995.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203205808
Proclaims “a media culture has emerged in which images, sounds, and

spectacles” shape political views and social behaviors, thus helping create
identity. Explores the consequences of media colonization. Contends
the motion pictures Easy Rider and Woodstock “transcoded the sixties
discourses.” Claims the latter film provided “figural action” showing

musicians as cultural heroes, promoters as benevolent benefactors, and
audience as counterculture participants. Suggests these two motion
pictures reduced 1960s political activism to cultural style which in turn
made it easy to co-opt and exploit the counterculture, eventually leading
to its demise.
361. King, Claire Sisco. Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the
Cinema. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Studies the “logic of traumatic heroism” within the cultural context

of motion pictures. Discusses the film Omega Man and its use of a
character watching the movie Woodstock as “offering ethical imperatives
and political critiques specific to its historical context.” Suggests the
character’s viewing of Woodstock represents “the countercultural
rejection of the hegemonic masculine attitudes that celebrate violence
and war-making” in favor of gentleness.
362. Leff, Leonard J., and Jerold L. Simmons. The Dame in the Kimono:
Hollywood, Censorship and the Production Code. Lexington, KY: University
Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Presents the history of motion picture ratings and censorship. Mentions

succinctly a debate over which rating to assign to the film Woodstock, “R”
versus “PG.” Implies the deciding factor was the repeated use of the
word “fuck” during “The Fish Cheer” by Country Joe McDonald.
363. Marcus, Greil. In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music 1977–1992.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Notes in brief the “imaginative camera work and editing” on “nine

otherwise-unlistenable minutes” of the performance by Ten Years After
in the motion picture Woodstock. Compares this to the motion picture No
Nukes in which there is a noticeable lack of creative filmmaking.
364. McElhaney, Joe. Albert Maysles. Ed. James Naremore. Contemporary

Film Directors. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Examines the documentary film work of Albert Maysles. Compares and

contrasts the motion picture Woodstock with Maysles’s film Gimme Shelter
documenting the disastrous Altamont Speedway concert. Describes
Woodstock as reinforcing the concept of the festival as having been “part
of the natural world that surrounds it rather than an intrusion.” The
politeness of Woodstock participants is emphasized, thus insinuating
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the counterculture coexists with mainstream culture, rather than in

opposition to it. Claims Gimme Shelter presents the youth culture lacking
utopian wonder. Observes nudity and sexuality, as representations of
nature or being natural, are portrayed in Gimme Shelter as uncontrolled
animal disorder. Suggests the Maysles film presents audience members
dancing using variable camera speeds in order to “giving the dances a
strange, unnatural rhythm and movement.” Includes a filmography.
365. Monaco, James. American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money,
the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Provides wide-ranging insight into multiple aspects of the movie-

making industry. Credits Martin Scorsese as the real creative force
behind the motion picture Woodstock. Claims it was one thing to shoot an
overwhelming amount of footage, but it took talent to give it shape and
pace within an acceptable running time. Asserts the film is “one of the
most notable models of the craft of editing since the Steenbeck editing
table was invented.”
366. Raymond, Marc. Hollywood’s New Yorker: The Making of Martin

Scorsese. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013.
Analyzes Martin Scorsese’s role in the culture of motion pictures.

Inspects concisely Martin Scorsese’s degree of involvement with the
making of the film Woodstock. Reports Scorsese was an assistant director
for the shoot and then worked on editing the movie. Notes some think
he was apathetic to the counterculture ethos, thus allowing him a certain
amount of “personal indifference.” Counters others consider his work
on the film to be political. Suggests attributing too much of the film’s
success to Scorsese is “flawed and yet unfortunately common auteurist
logic” in which the criterion for a film being labeled authentic art is
how the maker “must be deemed worthy” (as Scorsese’s post-Woodstock
career attests). Asserts “the question of who the authentic artist actually
is assumes greater importance, even within obviously collective activity,
for if one is not an artist, one is simply personnel.”
367. Woodstock: An Inside Look at the Movie that Shook Up the World and
Defined a Generation. Ed. Dale Bell. Studio City, CA: Michael Wise, 1999.
Provides detailed insight into the making of the motion picture Woodstock
using a large collection of brief interviews and essays by those involved
and by some of the artists captured in the film. Contains sixty-nine
chapters by thirty-nine contributors compiled into a “cinéma verité book.”
Discusses every aspect of the festival, post-production on the movie,
and the social and artistic impact. Describes how the film crew was
pulled together. Explains the innovations required in order to fulfill the
vision of the filmmakers. Offers perceptions on the sometimes difficult
working relationship with Warner Bros. Studio during post-production.
Communicates the political environment during the screening at the
1970 Cannes Film Festival in light of the Kent State shootings. Includes
a foreword by Martin Scorsese, a “where are they now” section, and
numerous black and white photographs.
Chapters
368. Arnold, Gina. “Nobody’s Army: Contradictory Cultural Rhetoric
in Woodstock and Gimme Shelter.” Countercultures and Popular Music.
Eds. Sheila Whiteley and Jedediah Sklower. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate,
2014. 123–137. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479 https://ia800205.
us.archive.org/17/items/Countercultures_and_Popular_Music_by_
Jedediah_Sklower_Sheila_Whiteley/Countercultures_and_Popular_
Music_by_Jedediah_Sklower_Sheila_Whiteley.pdf
Investigates “the genesis of the powerlessness and lack of direction that

rock crowds represent.” Looks at the motion pictures Woodstock and
Gimme Shelter as sources of rhetoric which create a misperception of
concert audiences being rebellious when, in fact, they are “largely docile,
passive and conservative.” Offers these two films, one documenting
1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Fair (Woodstock) and the other the
Altamont Speedway concert (Gimme Shelter), serve to reinforce notions of
democracy and capitalism. Argues Woodstock does not document an event,
such as newsreel might, but instead creates a narrative and an ideology.
Explores the notion of duality represented by means of the film, citing
examples of such concepts as conventional versus unconventional and
technology versus nature. Claims the Gimme Shelter uses similar rhetoric
strategies as Woodstock. Concludes both films portray the relationship
between promoters/musicians/vendors and consumers in such a way as
to create the moral acceptance of the market economy within the youth
culture. Notes the films also establish as a commodity the intangibleness
of an experience.
369. Baker, Michael Brendan. “Martin Scorsese and the Music

Documentary.” A Companion to Martin Scorsese. Ed. Aaron Baker.
Chichester, U.K.: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. 239–258. https://doi.org/10.
1002/9781118585344.ch11
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Explores Martin Scorsese’s relationship to rock music as expressed in

his documentaries. Examines the evolution of rockumentaries, starting
with the T.A.M.I. Show (1965). Claims the motion picture Woodstock
“enshrined the North American counterculture of the 1960s.” Notes
a major significance of Woodstock is the way in which it highlights the
audience as an essential element of the documented experience. Offers
Scorsese’s contributions and efforts in making Woodstock established
his “imprint on the rockumentary genre.” Focuses on Scorsese’s role as
assistant director, his work on capturing the stage performances, and
the use of split-screen to portray audience reactions. Continues with
discussions of other Scorsese motion picture documentaries, including
The Last Waltz (featuring The Band), No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, and
Shine a Light (featuring The Rolling Stones). States Scorsese was central
to the formation of the rockumentary genre, especially its form and
structure.
370. Barsam, Richard M. “The New Nonfiction Film: 1960–1970.”

Nonfiction Film: A Critical History. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973. 247–295.
Writes on the resurgence of nonfiction film production during the 1960s.

Asserts the motion pictures Woodstock and Gimme Shelter are juxtaposed
in the culture of rock music festivals, in their symbolism of the 1960s
counterculture, and in approaches to filmmaking. States the former
represents “love, music, and fun” while the latter conveys “hate, music,
and horror.” Claims Woodstock is a subjective documentary and Gimme
Shelter “comes as close to pure nonfiction film as any film has.” Notes
Woodstock has uneven quality of footage, varying greatly from performer
to performer. Observes Woodstock is more commercially oriented in its
presentation than Gimme Shelter. Concludes the success of these two
motion pictures created increased support for nonfiction film projects.
371. Bennett, Andy. “Everybody’s Happy, Everybody’s Free:

Representation and Nostalgia in the Woodstock Film.” Remembering
Woodstock. Ed. Andy Bennett. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. 43–54.
Evaluates the significance of the motion picture Woodstock as not only

a documentation of the festival, but also as a production of nostalgia.
Begins with a brief description of the loose and challenging way in which
the event was captured on film. Discusses how editing, sequencing
scenes, and the use of split-screen removes selected actual events from
their original context and makes them iconic in shaping perceptions and
recollections of the festival. Explores how rock music by the late 1960s
had come to represent the counterculture ethos of community between
musician and audience, but in reality was a business firmly grounded in

capitalism. Traces the evolution into mythology of an idealized vision of
the counterculture as presented in the film Woodstock which now serves
as a nostalgia trigger for an idealized time that never existed in reality.
Offers that the “film continuously plays down the mundane in favour
of the spectacular” resulting in the representation of the festival as a
pinnacle statement on 1960s’ counterculture.
372. Ebert, Roger. “Woodstock.” Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger
Ebert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 267–271. https://doi.
org/10.7208/chicago/9780226182063.001.0001
Reviews (from May 3, 1970) the motion picture Woodstock. Asserts the
film “may be the best documentary ever made in America.” States this
documentary is more than a movie on rock music; it is an “archeological
study” on a briefly formed civilization. Claims the film is remarkable
because in conveys realistically the experience of having been at the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Comments on the editorial skill of
providing an objective, if not neutral, perspective on the event. Notes
Woodstock captures the musician/audience inter-participation of the
performances. Reveals being moved by Joan Baez’s set. Marvels at the
film capturing and presenting a folk singer’s act (Richie Havens) just as
powerfully as any of those by the rock groups. Suggests the use of split
screen is more successful in this film than others because it is used to
advance the narrative.
373. Edgar, Robert, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, and Benjamin Halligan.

“Music Seen: The Formats and Functions of the Music Documentary.”
The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Eds. Robert Edgar, Kirsty
Fairclough-Isaacs, and Benjamin Halligan. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Focuses on the transformative arrival of music videos intended for

television audiences. Notes that the Woodstock film and others of the
same period were essentially documenting musical events with “the
cameras engaged in reportage, the musicians primarily engaged in the
live delivery of their music.” The premise of these films being one of
“an active and nuanced dialogue between performances and audiences.”
Claims that in the video age image comes before the music. Continues
the discussion by noting a hybrid evolution throughout the 1980s to a
preference for more stylized live performances and then on to the cult
of celebrity. States contemporary music documentaries help create
a “celebrity/star brand” by offering a presentation of “manufactured
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authenticity.” Concludes by noting the music documentary “persists

as both an index of, and access to, the certainties and the vagaries of
popular culture.”
374. MacDonald, Stephen. “Woodstock: One for the Money.” The

Documentary Tradition: From Nanook to Woodstock. Ed. Lewis Jacobs. New
York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1971. 492–493.
Reprints an article from The Wall Street Journal (March 27, 1970)
commenting on the motion picture Woodstock. Notes the apparent
purpose of the film is to celebrate, rather than examine, the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Observes the vignettes of the attendees (e.g., dancing
and skinny-dipping) make the event seem very appealing, but the
interviews are disturbing. Claims attendees come across as “wholly
inarticulate.” Notes the local citizens are portrayed as being “quaint old
squares.” Concludes by noting how the film highlights the one thing
proven by the festival, which is the “commercially exploitable” nature
of the counterculture.
375. Niemi, Robert. “Music History on Film and Television: Woodstock

(1970).” History in the Media: Film and Television. Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 2006. 258–260.
Expresses some distain for the motion picture Woodstock, describing it as

“a sprawling, overlong mess, exciting and boring by turns.” Comments
that the film was not intended to simply document the event, but to
“celebrate the hippie/counterculture in all its supposed peace-loving,
sensuous, gaudy vibrancy.” Suggests by the time the film was released
in 1970 the “hippie ethos had already died” citing as evidence the
Manson murders and the violent Altamont Speedway concert. Includes
a reproduction of a poster promoting the event, not the film.
376. Romberg, Chris, and Keith Roberts Sargent. “Interview with Jimi
Hendrix.” Hendrix on Hendrix: Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix.
Ed. Steven Roby. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012. 309–316.
Transcribes an interview from the Armed Forces Radio Network

(September 1970) in which Hendrix is asked to comment on his
appearance in the motion picture Woodstock and especially on his
performance of The Star Spangled Banner in the film. Hendrix’s responses
are mostly evasive.
377. Saffle, Michael. “Retrospective Compilations: (Re)Defining the

Music Documentary.” The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Eds.
Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, and Benjamin Halligan. New

York: Routledge, 2013. 42–54. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203118689
Evaluates music documentaries “in terms of accessibility, authenticity,

film history, media issues, musical styles, and political-social-cultural
goals ranging from avant-garde experimentation to postmodern
infotainment.” Points to the motion picture Woodstock as an example of
how music documentaries tend to be about contemporary events and not
as retrospective as other documentaries. At the time of its original release,
Woodstock reported on a still current newsworthy event. Commenting
on the 1994 and 2009 re-releases of Woodstock, with much more footage
added each time, the author offers the film as an example of a remade
documentary. Notes Woodstock contains footage of the photographers
and interviewers, thus making the film a “simultaneously informative
and entertaining, authentic and self-consciously arch.”
378. Saunders, Dave. “In Search of Elysium.” Direct Cinema: Observational

Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.
99–125.
Examines American cinema verite of the 1960s for its richness in

“subjective creativity and discursive potency.” Provides the context
of the Vietnam War and associated domestic political unrest in order
to introduce a discussion on the motion picture Woodstock. Mentions
filmmaker Michael Wadleigh’s financial incentives for his crew if the
film were to be successful. Analyzes in detail the movie, scene by scene,
from the pastoral views of readying the site and the audience’s arrival
through the selected performances portrayed on the screen to the final
set by Jimi Hendrix, suggesting his articulation of The Star Spangled
Banner represented the counterculture deconstructing itself. Concludes
the film’s theme is “all this fleeting happiness is bought at a price to our
conscience and morals.”
379. Wright, Julie Lobalzo. “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ‘60s:
The Opposing Gazes of Woodstock and Gimme Shelter.” The Music
Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Eds. Robert Edgar, Kirsty
Fairclough-Isaacs, and Benjamin Halligan. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Compares and contrasts two documentary motion pictures, Woodstock

(Woodstock Music and Art Fair) and Gimme Shelter (Altamont Speedway
concert). Offers the former as the “zenith of the counterculture movement”
and the latter as “its violent end.” Contends these two films “helped
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shape both the ‘Direct Cinema’ movement and the ‘rockumentary’

genre.” Draws the distinction of “communal gaze” (Woodstock) and
“disconnecting gaze” (Gimme Shelter). Examines the two films from
three perspectives: setting, crowd, and performances. Woodstock
creates a setting with scenes of open, green fields thus establishing the
“environment as idyllic, peaceful, and agrarian.” The crowd shots are
expansive and portray a sense of community. The performances shown
on screen emphasize collaboration with the audience using wide frame
shots of people clapping to the music and dancing. Gimme Shelter makes
heavy use of tightly framed shots for the setting, the crowd, and the
performances, thus evoking claustrophobia and individualism. Claims
memories of the events captured in the two films have been “shaped
by the nature of these aesthetic strategies.” States it is important to
acknowledge the film texts are presented with intention.
Articles
380. Barron, Arthur. “Ken Edwards Memorial Address.” Journal of the
University Film Association 21.3 (1969): 77–80.
Poses the question of relevance for filmmakers in light of the Woodstock

Music and Art Fair and “the profound revolution in life style and values.”
Bases question on the author’s then recent experience at the festival.
Speaks from the perspective of the film division of Columbia University.
Categorizes motion pictures into three traditions: reporting, instructing,
and “human revelation.” Calls for filmmakers to focus on human
revelation in which the film experience is the focal point, rather than the
informational content it may be conveying. Defines human revelation
films as experimental, not didactic, and sharing the human experience
on an emotional level. Reasons this will serve the purpose that all art
serves which is to make the joy and grief of one comprehensible to all.
381. Bodroghkozy, Aniko. “Reel Revolutionaries: An Examination of

Hollywood’s Cycle of 1960s Youth Rebellion Films.” Cinema Journal 41.3
(2002): 38–58. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2002.0007 http://www.asu.edu/
courses/fms394/readings-biddinger/L6 bodroghkozy.rebellionfilms.pdf
Dissects attempts by Hollywood studios to lure youth audiences during

the late 1960s and early 1970s by using films about political activism
and youth protest. Includes unfavorable responses to these actions
as reflected in underground newspapers. Observes Hollywood’s
“schizophrenic” attempts to negotiate ideologies when marketing to the
youth culture. Notes the reaction to the film Woodstock was less critical
since it was regarded as a documentary and, therefore, considered

less contrived. However, criticism erupted over the marketing of the
film because of the “blatant example of cooptation” for purposes of
commercialization. Describes how successful pickets and boycotts were
organized and the related consequences for both the establishment and
the underground press.
382. Costello, Donald P. “From Counterculture to Anticulture.”

The Review of Politics 34.4 (1972): 187–193. https://doi.org/10.1017/
s0034670500021586
Claims three motion pictures both define and become participants of

the 1960s counterculture: Woodstock, Easy Rider, and A Clockwork Orange.
Suggests the movie Woodstock defined the counterculture by means of
allowing the masses to experience the festival through “exploiting sights
and sounds to a hyperrealism,” thus providing both an ordered and
intentionally chaotic perfection to the event. Observes 1960s culture was
mostly communicated through sights and sounds rather than articulated
through words. Offers as proof the film Woodstock as “perhaps the most
verbally inarticulate film ever made.” Continues by arguing Woodstock
represents past values, Easy Rider deals with present [at the time this
article was written] values, and A Clockwork Orange provides a glimpse
of future values.
383. Goldstone, Bobbie. “Culture Vulture: Woodstock.” Off Our Backs

1.6 (1970): 14.
Comments on the motion picture Woodstock from a feminist perspective.

Observes that when viewing the film, one is aware of being manipulated
into “responding in a pre-determined way to a pre-determined set of
feelings and emotions.” Comments on the portrayal of sex roles, with a
focus on the way in which male sex objects are represented in film.
384. Kitts, Thomas M. “Documenting, Creating, and Interpreting

Moments of Definition: ‘Monterey Pop,’ ‘Woodstock,’ and ‘Gimme
Shelter’.” Journal of Popular Culture 42.4 (2009): 715–732. https://doi.
org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00704.x
Demonstrates the ways in which the filmmakers of Monterey Pop (D.

A. Pennebaker), Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh), and Gimme Shelter
(Maysles brothers) edited their films to “document, create, interpret,
and preserve” the mythologies associated with each music festival.
Pennebaker celebrated the romantic, free-spirit, and innocence of the
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summer of 1967. Wadleigh revealed the tensions, contradictions, and

ambiguities happening at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August
1969. Observes the Woodstock festival was a “very complex event with
many nuanced, disconnected, and sometimes disparate occurrences.”
The motion picture Woodstock articulates this complexity and as a result
both subverts and creates the Woodstock myth. Claims the Maysles
brothers played upon the audiences’ knowledge of the terrible events
that occurred at the Altamont Speedway concert in late 1969 in order to
“create the same sense of inexorable doom of a Greek tragedy.” Views the
three films as a trilogy, with an increasing presence of the filmmakers on
the screen thus reflecting the changing culture towards the individual
and away from the communal. Asserts when taken as a trilogy the films
“provide an interpretive history of the rise and decline of the Sixties’
counterculture spirit.”
385. La Rosa, Melanie. “Early Video Pioneer: An Interview with Skip

Blumberg.” Journal of Film and Video 64.1–2 (2012): 30–41. https://doi.
org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.64.1-2.0030
Interviews Skip Blumberg, a notable individual in the development of

video documentary and experimental films. Responds to a question
about the ways in which early video is now being utilized by referring
to the Videofreex tapes made at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
States these videos are “a detailed slice of what was happening behind
the scenes” as opposed to the editorialized record of the motion picture
Woodstock. Notes this unedited footage is being screened and appreciated
for “the fresh and direct real-time experience” provided to the audience.
386. Messenger, Cory. “Record Collectors: Hollywood Record Labels in

the 1950s and 1960s.” Media International Australia incorporating Culture
and Policy 148 (2013): 118–126.
Examines the evolution of film and music synergy which “transformed

the marketing of recorded music, sparking a period of unprecedented
commercial success for the record industry in the late 1960s.” Presents
the costs and profits behind both the motion picture Woodstock and
the record album Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and
More. Notes the Woodstock festival “represented the culmination of
Hollywood’s attempts to nurture a youth audience for film by drawing
on methodologies developed within the rock music market.” States
Warner Bros. demonstrated the potential of cross-marketing between
the film and music industries with the result being an upheaval in the
“conventional methodologies of entertainment industry practice.”
387. Plasketes, George M. “Rock on Reel: The Rise and Fall of the
Rock Culture in America Reflected in a Decade of ‘Rockumentaries’.”
Qualitative Sociology 12.1 (1989): 55–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/
bf00989244
Analyzes the representation in motion pictures of American youth

culture in the 1960s. Focuses on rockumentaries, including Monterey
Pop, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, and The Last Waltz. Explores “the ways
in which popular film and music both reflect and define political and
cultural movements” by means of “comparing and contrasting the plots
and narrative techniques.” Claims the 1960s was a time in which rock
music captured and presented an alternate social order. Describes the
motion picture Woodstock as resembling a romantic comedy. Observes
the film “leaves the underlying impression that it does not completely
share the spirit of the festival” and it’s subjectivism lands somewhere
between approval and criticism. Concludes with remarks on the
evolution of rockumentaries from an emphasis on music to visuals of
the music videos in the 1980s, transforming a music culture into a visual
culture.
388. Reitinger, Douglas W. “Paint it Black: Rock Music and Vietnam

War Film.” Journal of American Culture 15.3 (1992): 53–59. https://doi.
org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.1992.00053.x
Explores the use of rock music in Vietnam War films, specifically Francis
Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket.
Introduces the article by contending the release of the motion picture
Woodstock on two VHS videotapes altered the structure of the film
“ultimately coloring any viewing or interpretation of it.” Observes the
first of the two tapes presents optimism and progressive cooperation (e.g.,
relationship building among various stakeholders) while the second tape
shows a movement towards disaster and disillusionment (e.g., lack of
sanitation, bad weather). Claims Woodstock as presented “symbolically
and structurally in the video presentation” parallels the history of rock
music and, specifically, its “nearly inseparable relationship with the
Vietnam conflict.”
389. Saunders, Dave. “Which Garden? Michael Wadleigh’s

Woodstock:” Vertigo 3.5 (2007): 62–63. https://www.closeupfilmcentre.
com/vertigo_magazine/volume-3-issue-5-spring-2007/which-garden-
michael-wadleighs-woodstock/
Suggests a close examination of the motion picture Woodstock reveals

more than a “finely composed memento” of the 1960s counterculture.
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Highlights the balanced perspective represented in the film such that “for
every utopian bliss there is an equal and opposite moment of dystopian
misery.” Notes the Woodstock festival only happened because of two
catalysts: baby boomers and the Vietnam War. Contends the inherent
theme of a fleeting idealized peacefulness marginalized by negative
hedonism continues to be reinforced by anniversary concerts that “sully
the dream.”
390. Schowalter, Daniel F. “Remembering the Dangers of Rock and

Roll: Toward a Historical Narrative of the Rock Festival.” Critical
Studies in Media Communication 17.1 (2000): 86–102. https://doi.
org/10.1080/15295030009388377
Highlights the 1970 motion pictures Woodstock and Gimme Shelter to be

representative of a historical narrative potentially promoting rock music
as dangerous to society. Claims the Woodstock film focuses on the effects of
music on the audience as opposed to the music itself. Editorial decisions
served to de-politicize the festival by means of how it is documented
in the final edit of the film. Makes similar observations regarding the
Gimme Shelter film in that it is edited to document an interpretation
of the event, in this case with a focus on audience violence. Insists the
rock music narrative presented in the two motion pictures is clear, “it is
but a small step for an enraptured and passive mass influenced by the
sinister invisibility of rock music to become a violent and anesthetized
mob.” Introduces the motion picture Monterey Pop in order to expose the
historical narrative of the other two motion pictures as being contrived
because in its documenting of a music festival Monterey Pop focuses
on the music as opposed to the effect on the audience. Concludes by
warning viewers to be aware of the potential for documentaries to
exploit representations and “inform political and moral argument.”
391. Telotte, J. P. “Scorsese’s ‘The Last Waltz’ and the Concert Genre.”
Film Criticism 4.2 (1980): 9–20.
Begins with a discussion of the movie musical genre and its inherent
surrealism. Notes concert documentaries differ from other motion
pictures within the genre because they show the natural world in
which the music occurs. Points to both the films Woodstock and Gimme
Shelter as being even further removed from the movie musical genre
because “the activities of the concert-goers, the non-musical elements
of the films, are given a heightened importance, effectively altering or
enhancing our response to the music.” Discourses on the motion picture
The Last Waltz and how Martin Scorsese altered his editorial style used
previously on Woodstock by crafting a self-enclosed environment for The
Band’s last concert. Notes that rather than providing cameras shots from
the audience and thus providing the viewer “the usual identification
mechanism, he shoots nearly all of the actual concert footage from
onstage.”
392. Westrup, Laurel. “Medias Martyrs? Rock ‘n’ Roll, Film and the
Political Economy of Death.” Spectator 27 (2007): 33–41. https://cinema.
usc.edu/assets/053/10907.pdf
Proposes the motion pictures Woodstock and Gimme Shelter (the infamous
Altamont Speedway concert headlined by the Rolling Stones), both
released in 1970 and each documenting a different 1969 rock concert,
serve as “case studies that expose the role of death in the production,
exhibition, and marketing of rock films.” Discusses both films and their
often juxtaposed themes (one celebrating life, the other documenting
death) in the context of what the author describes as “the political
economy of death.” Analyzes various interpretations of the films as
influenced by their marketing which has occurred over the years since
they were first released.
Websites
393. Sobcynski, Peter. “Interview: Michael Wadleigh on ‘Woodstock’.”
http://www.efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=2774
Interviews director Michael Wadleigh regarding his making of the

motion picture Woodstock. Describes the film as one of the greatest
documentaries ever produced. Claims without the movie the actual
festival would be long forgotten. Wadleigh talks about how his previous
work on the origins of the American Communist Party in Woodstock,
New York, led to his involvement with the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. Articulates how it was decided which songs to film, given limited
resources. Notes over 200 hours of footage were shot during the event.
Asserts it is a myth some groups would not grant rights to be included
in the motion picture and that the decisions on who to include were
aesthetic. Concludes with Wadleigh explaining his lack of continued
success as a filmmaker, noting his agenda was political and not artistic.
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Videos
394. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (the Director’s Cut). Dir.
Wadleigh, Michael. Warner Home Video, 2009
Documents to the fullest extent the entire three days of the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Digitally remastered and includes two hours
of never before seen footage, with five additional music acts (Paul
Butterfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Mountain,
Johnny Winter) not seen in any previous releases. Contains interviews
with Michael Wadleigh (director), Martin Scorsese (editor), and Thelma
Schoonmaker (editor). Maintains the frame mirroring, freeze frames,
and multiple camera angles from the original 1970 theatrical release.
Arts & Literature
Books
395. Banes, Sally. Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. Middletown,
CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Quotes choreographer Simone Forti explaining her inspirational

experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. She perceived a sharing
of space and fate in a way that stimulated her to immerse herself into the
hippie culture the following year.
396. Ertegun, Ahmet. ‘What’d I Say’: The Atlantic Story―50 Years of Music.
New York: Welcome Rain, 2001.
Presents the history of Ahmet Ertegun and Atlantic Records in an

oversized coffee table book. Quotes Ertegun describing why he acquired
the recording rights for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, why he
initially turned down the option to purchase the film rights, and how
he eventually ended up with both. Includes glossy photographs from
the festival.
397. Evans, Ron. Chasing Woodstock: Finding the Cost of Freedom. N.

Clarendon, Vermont: Euprax Books, 2013.
Presents the results of the author’s quest (i.e., Woodstock Program

Project) to show Woodstock Music and Art Fair performers his copy
of the long forgotten and rarely seen official program from the festival.
Shares the musicians’ “priceless and sometimes shocking” reactions.
Provides insights not found elsewhere, but mostly serves as a light and
entertaining read.
398. Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip. New York: DK, 2003.
Serves as a coffee table book on the history of the Grateful Dead,

arranged chronologically and illustrated extensively with color
photographs. Describes the circumstances of the group’s performance at
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes their generally poor set at the
festival and explains why they were not included in the motion picture
Woodstock. Foreword by Robert Hunter.
399. Landy, Elliott. Woodstock 1969: The First Festival. Santa Rosa, CA:
Squarebooks, 1994.
Presents a commemorative collection of both color and black and white

photographs from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Contains images
by a dozen photographers: Ralph Ackerman, Henry Diltz, Dan Garson,
Charles Harbutt, Elliot Landy, Lisa Law, Barry Levine, Shelly Rusten,
Peter Menzel, Joseph Sia, Burk Uzzle, and Baron Wolman. Includes
reproductions of selected New York Times articles from the event.
Provides contextual narratives from selected festival participants and
photographers (John Roberts, John Morris, Lisa Law, Henry Diltz, Greil
Marcus, Michael Lang, and Elliott Landy). Introduction by Jerry Garcia.
400. Landy, Elliott. Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation. New

York: Continuum, 1994.
Collects photographs from the late 1960s taken by the author, a

professional photographer. Devotes a section to the Woodstock Music
and Art Fair. Includes an afterword by Richie Havens titled “The
Essence of Woodstock” which he describes as “bringing people of like
mind together.” Havens claims that in 1994 “everyone now is a product
of the Woodstock spirit.”
401. Lang, Michael, Henry Diltz, and Dan Garson. Woodstock Experience.
Guildford, U.K.: Genesis Publications, 2009.
Collects artifacts and other memorabilia related to the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair. Packages photographs, art, graphics, recordings, and
writings by Ben Fong-Torres, Dan Garson, Paul Krassner, George Lois and
Tim O’Brien. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Foreword by Arlo Guthrie.
402. Lawton, John. Sweet Sunday. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,
2014.
Presents a work of fiction in which the protagonist, a private investigator,

eventually attends the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
403. Littleproud, Brad, and Joanne Hague. Woodstock: Peace, Music &
Memories: 40th Anniversary. Iola, WI: Krause, 2009.
Celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art
Fair in a coffee table book format. Contains text of numerous personal
recollections from organizers, musicians, and attendees, along with
many color photographs. Reproduces newspaper articles, posters, and
other miscellaneous items (e.g., the contract used for hiring The Who).
Devotes one chapter to collecting memorabilia, with suggested items
and market values. Foreword by Artie Kornfeld, one of the Woodstock
organizers, and an epilogue by Wavy Gravy. Authors were members of
the Woodstock Preservation Alliance.
404. Logsdon, Gene. The Mother of all Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative
Impulse. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. https://doi.
org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813124438.001.0001
Studies the way in which “the creative impulse in art acts itself out when
influenced by farming and rural life.” Explores connections between art
and agriculture and the impact on society. Claims, in a chapter titled
“Singing Farmers,” the massive turnout of urbanites to the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair was a desire to discover “primeval agrarian roots,
instinctively, if not consciously.” Asserts that above all else, the festival
was “an example of how art could be profoundly influenced by old
mother agriculture, even if in a pathetic way.” Suggests the concert
was a trigger event for the back-to-the-land movement that became
predominant among members of the counterculture.
405. Rosebud: Jenny Holzer, Matt Mullican, Lawrence Weiner. Eds.

Michael Tarantino and Ulrich Wilmes. Munich, Germany: Kunstbau
Lenbachhaus München, 1994.
Serves as an exhibition catalogue for a touring set of installations by

American artists Jenny Holzer, Matt Mullican and Lawrence Weiner.
The section of text by Ulrich Wilmes uses two culmination events
from 1969, the Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair, to proclaim the reality of art is determined by its relationship
to the present. Suggests that art “conveys an aesthetic experience of
reality whose authenticity is a function of permanent progress” in the
conditions of its making. Considers the impact of this on avant-garde
art and the possibility of it becoming “an emancipatory model for the
self-identification of the individual in relation to others.”
406. Sackett, Linanne G., and Barry Z. Levine. The Woodstock Story
Book: A Chronologically and Anatomically Correct Illustrated Tale for Post-
Woodstock Generations. Troy, NY: Brunswick Institute, 2009.
Publishes nearly 300 large color photographs accompanied by text

written in child’s verse, but clearly intended as an adult story book.
Photographer Barry Z. Levine was part of the Woodstock film crew and
captured the event with his camera on site prior to, during, and after the
August 1969 weekend of the festival. Reproduces the lyrics to I-Feel-Like-
I’m-Fixing-To-Die Rag by Country Joe McDonald. Contains a foreword by
Wavy Gravy, who states the book “brings back for me the magic that was
Woodstock―the energy of the community that terrified the powers that
be.” Includes photographs taken at the concert identifying members of
the film crew and, more recently, a photograph of the commemorative
monument at the site. Concludes with an afterword by the photographer
reflecting back on the 1969 festival.
407. Sia, Joseph J. Woodstock 69: Summer Pop Festivals. New York:
Scholastic Book Services, 1970.
Collects black and white photographs of audiences and performers

from selected major music festivals held in 1969, from the Newport Jazz
Festival to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Many of the musicians
appearing at Woodstock also performed at a number of these other music
festivals. Observes that even though dire predictions were made about
potential violence and crisis-like conditions at such a large gathering as
Woodstock, attendees simply came to “listen to the supersounds of their
favorite rock groups.” Paperback quality printing.
408. Soares, Valérie I. O., and Jack Tzekov. Lily and Kayden’s 1969
Woodstock Adventure. Ottawa, Canada: Petra Books, 2014.
Children’s book about two youngsters taken on a flying couch to the

Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
409. Sonnenblick, Jordan. Are You Experienced? New York: Feiwel and
Friends, 2013.
Presents young adult fiction in which a contemporary fifteen-year-old

boy is transported back in time to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
410. Tiber, Elliot. Woodstock Delirium: Music, Mayhem & Madness. New
York: Woodstock Delirium, 2001.
Represents a humorous “fictionalized version of non-fiction events.”

Foreword by Richie Havens.
411. Wallace, Rich. War & Watermelon. New York: Puffin Books, 2012.
Presents a young adult fictional coming of age story in which the twelve
year old main character attends the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
412. Walter, Greg, and Lisa Grant. Woodstock: A New Look. Cranston, RI:
Writers Collective, 2008.
Presents the author’s personal photographs mixed with those from the
Associated Press and Henry Diltz, all taken during the 1969 Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Explains Walter was eighteen years of age and an
employee of Woodstock Ventures. Notes he was hired to work on the art
crew and he helped to build the stage. Describes the process by which
he was hired, his meeting Max Yasgur, and his experiences during
the three days of the concert. During his time before and while at the
festival, the author took lots of photographs, developed them as slides,
and then forgot about them for forty years. Thus, this work includes
many photographs of the event not previously seen by anyone. Uses the
Afterword to describe the author’s experience as a Vietnam War draft
dodger.
413. Westfahl, Gary. William Gibson. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois

Press, 2013.
Relates very briefly William Gibson, science fiction author, describing

his experience at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as being “like going
to a Civil War battle.”
414. Wolman, Baron. Woodstock. London: Reel Art Press, 2014.
Collects scores of black and white photographs taken by Baron Wolman

at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969. Concentrates on images of
the throngs of festival attendees. Notes how Wolman “was fascinated,
captivated, enchanted and transfixed by the crowd.” Transcribes a
lengthy joint interview with Wolman and Michael Lang (one of the
Woodstock promoters), conducted by Dagon James. Quotes Wolman
describing how he and photographer Jim Marshall had spent the
summer of 1969 traveling the country photographing music festivals.
Delves into many detailed aspects of the Woodstock festival and its
aftermath. Reproduces as an appendix Wolman’s contact sheets from
the event. Includes a Foreword by Carlos Santana.
415. Woodstock ‘94: The Book. New York: Callaway Editions, 1994.
Commemorates the Woodstock ‘94 concert. Gathers both color and black
and white photographs interspersed with text in the style of an exhibition
catalog. Includes black and white backstage portraits of performers and

audience photographs taken by Albert Watson. Contains essays by John
Milward and Christopher John Farley. Foreword by Amy Wu.
416. Yasgur, Abigail, and Joseph Lipner. Max Said Yes!: The Woodstock
Story. Los Angeles: Change the Universe Press, 2009.
Presents a child’s story book, included here as an artifact. One of the

co-authors is a relative of Max Yasgur. Quotes Max Yasgur’s edited
remarks from the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Includes
the lyrics to Joni Mitchell’s song Woodstock. Illustrated by Barbara Mendes.
Chapters
417. Burt, Ramsay. “Simone Forti and Bill T. Jones at Woodstock.”
Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces. London: Routledge, 2006.
Explores the development and legacy of the Judson Dance Theater in

the creation of postmodern dance. Contrasts two differing race-based
perspectives on the avant-garde by using personal narratives of individual
experiences from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Criticizes Forti for
believing her observations of an African-American attendee dancing
represented “an ahistorical, premodern past.” Suggests she is naive for
not considering the experience from the dancer’s perspective. Observes
Jones’ description of an audience member (his brother) dancing is “both
personal and political,” noting this possibility had not occurred to Forti.
418. Chess, Richard. “Alan Shapiro (1952-).” Holocaust Literature: An

Encyclopedia of Writers and their Work. Ed. S. Lillian Kremer. New York:
Routledge, 2003. 1152–1155.
Discusses a poem about the Holocaust titled “Mud Dancing” and set at
the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Notes the poem “invokes the
ghosts of victims of the Holocaust who are drawn to the scene because
of its familiarity.”
419. Cooke, Jon B. “Still Chaykin After all these Years: A Life in American
Comics.” Howard Chaykin: Conversations. Ed. Brannon Costello. Jackson,
MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 188–241.
Quotes Howard Chaykin (noted comic book writer, artist, and graphic
novel pioneer) explaining his Woodstock Music and Art Fair experience.
States he went to the festival in a ’63 Bonneville convertible and once

there he learned “I don’t do dirty and smelly well.” Reprinted from
Comic Book Artist. v. 2, no. 5 (December 2004). The rest of the book reveals
Chaykin’s aesthetics through a series of other reprinted interviews.
420. Dolin, Sharon. “Phonography.” Whirlwind. Pittsburgh, PA:

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 57.
Presents a collection of the author’s poems, including “Phonography”

in which playing the record album Woodstock: Music from the Original
Soundtrack and More evokes childhood memories of the Vietnam War.
421. “Flashbacks.” 1969: Woodstock, the Moon and Manson: The Turbulent
End of the ‘60s. Ed. Kelly Knauer. New York: Time Books, 2009. 88–93.
Presents a photographic essay on the Woodstock Music and Art Fair

using both color and black and white photographs of the performers
and audience.
422. Forti, Simone. “The Garden.” Handbook in Motion. Halifax, Canada:

The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974. 15–16. https://
monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Forti_Simone_Handbook_in_Motion.pdf
Collects drawings, photographs, essays, and handwritten notes by

Forti, a dancer, choreographer, and musician. Recounts her experience
attending the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Describes dancing to her
simultaneous hearing of various pockets of music “already somewhat
integrated because they were within earshot of each other.” Remembers
feeling a shared ethos of space and fate.
Articles
423. Dumas, Timothy. “Still Together Now.” Smithsonian 40.5 (2009):
6–8.
Reveals how the photograph used for the iconic Woodstock: Music from
the Original Soundtrack and More album came to be taken. Notes the
picture is of a couple (Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly) embracing at
the festival. Describes the journey that randomly brought together the
photographer (Burk Uzzle) and the subjects at the right moment in time
to capture a candid image representing the peace and love ethos of the
event. Reveals the significance of the plastic butterfly also capture in
the image. Explains “a spaced-out Californian named Herbie tagged
along, carrying a wooden staff with a plastic butterfly dancing from the
tip.” Adds he had joined Ercoline and Kelly on their walking trek to
the festival after having abandoned their Impala station wagon along
the way. Notes the famous photograph was taken as Jefferson Airplane
played in the dawn’s early light.
424. Ecker, David W. “The Structure of Affect in the Art Curriculum.”

Art Education 24.1 (1971): 26–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/3191570
Calls for a re-examination of art curriculum “in terms of the relationship

between the affective and cognitive structures now built into it and those
structures our students display outside of school,” meaning the 1960s
counterculture ethos. Uses descriptions by attendees of the Woodstock
Music and Art to illustrate the “structure of affect.” Recommends art
educators better understand student attitudes, feelings, values, and
beliefs and how these things should be discussed in the classroom
as learning objectives. Offers art curriculum should be open ended.
Contends “deeply felt experiences both of the creative process and the
aesthetic response to art should be the overall objective of art education.”
425. Hafen, P. Jane. “Rock and Roll, Redskins, and Blues in Sherman
Alexie’s Work.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 9.4 (1997): 71–78.
Discusses the writings of Sherman Alexie as being “a fusion of historical

sensibilities and grim realisms of contemporary Indian life.” Describes a
chapter from Alexie’s book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
in which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair is used to manifest the
hippie movement’s affectation of American Indian culture, one which
does not symbolize counterculture subversion but instead becomes
“merely another extension of colonialism.” Relays the deep affinity the
narrator’s father had for Jimi Hendrix. Suggests the challenge for critics
assessing the works of Alexie is to assess his body of work “in terms of
tribal and intellectual sovereignty.”
426. Hernandez, Debra Gersh. “No Nudes is Good Nudes: Firs-Prize

Photograph in the White House News Photographers Association
Competition Creates a Stir.” Editor and Publisher 128.6 (1995): 9–10.
Relays the story of a photograph taken by Kenneth Lambert at Woodstock

’94 depicting a naked man sitting in a lawn chair with a woman looking
at him cynically. Highlights the photograph’s award of first prize in a
White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) competition.
States the photographer wanted to illustrate how the festival differed
from the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair because the male
subject is the only person naked and is being shown some disdain by
others at the event. Notes an unsuccessful attempt by Ken Blaylock
to ban the photograph from an exhibition and publication for being
“inappropriate.”
427. Hirsch, Edward. “The Duende.” American Poetry Review 28.4 (1999):
13–21.
Contemplates Federico Garcia Lorca’s invocation of the Dionysian

spirit of art as duende. Describes Lorca’s definition of duende as “not a
completed work in and of itself, but a force that drives through the work,
that electrifies it.” Explores the presence of duende in modern American
art. Illustrates the essence of duende through examples, including Jimi
Hendrix’s performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock
Music and Art Fair. Offers the rendering “reverberated across the fields
with the gusto of an American childhood, with the patriotic memory
of previous American wars, with the flaming sounds of an undeclared
war going on halfway across the world.” Includes a poetic description
of Hendrix’s performance by James McManus. Compares Hendrix’s
description of his version of the national anthem to vernacular “heard
often in the dark personal agon of our poetry.” Concludes by describing
duende, in part, as “a joy that burns and a suffering that scalds.”
428. Hoberman, J. “Moon Dance: On the Summer of ‘69.” Artforum

International 32.10 (1994): 10, 117.
Compares and contrasts two major events from 1969 as being two of the
most culturally significant events of the twentieth century: the Apollo
moon launch in July and the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August.
Interjects the occurrences of the Manson murders and other major news
items from that year.
429. Meyer, James. “Impure Thoughts: The Art of Sam Durant.”

Artforum International 38.8 (2000): 112–117.
Profiles American artist Sam Durant, whose installation Partially Buried

1960s/70s: Utopia Reflected, Dystopia Revealed (1998) builds upon the
dichotomous relationship between the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
and Altamont Speedway concert, both of 1969. Explores the “dialectical
relationship of the two, the entropic collapse of one state into another.”
Dissects the mythology surround the juxtaposed events to demonstrate
a “basic structural logic.”
430. Rohlehr, F. G. “Some Problems of Assessment: A Look at New

Expressions in the Arts of the Contemporary Caribbean.” Caribbean
Quarterly 17.3/4 (1971): 92–113.
Mentions in a few words the impact of the motion picture Woodstock on

Trinidad in the early 1970s. Claims the film’s “white liberal orientation
and vagueness, its atmosphere of cliché and escapism, provided the
youth with all the justification that they needed for a retreat into the
uneasy nirvana of weed and pills.”
431. Schwartz, Steven. “What We Talk About When We Talk about

Negative Attachment.” The North American Review 290.2 (2005): 43–52.
Presents a short fiction in which a trip in 1969 to the Woodstock Music

and Art Fair is included.
432. Shapiro, Alan. “Woodstock Puritan.” TriQuarterly 92 (1994):

139–164.
Presents a story recounting coming of age in the era of the 1960’s

counterculture. Ponders on the narrator’s experiences as reflected from
his close friend’s social and political transformation. Describes their
pilgrimage to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 as
having reached the promised land, at least initially. Observes how at the
event “we could openly do with no fear of reprisal what we had grown
accustomed to doing late at night behind locked doors.” Comments in
some detail on the two’s experience of surviving the weekend at the
festival while at the same time growing apart.
433. Snaevarr, Stefan. “Dylan as a Rortian: Bob Dylan, Richard Rorty,

Postmodernism, and Political Skepticism.” Journal of Aesthetic Education
48.4 (2014): 38–49. https://doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.48.4.0038
Examines Bob Dylan’s postmodern political skepticism as expressed

in his music and writings dating from the 1960s. Introduces Richard
Rorty’s philosophy to ground the essay in theory. Invokes Jimi Hendrix’s
performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair as an example of music expressing political emotions. Claims
Hendrix’s rendering the piece without words messaged the patriotic
lyrics as being near worthless. Suggests Hendrix demonstrated how one
can articulate political emotions using nonverbal symbols. Concludes by
stating Dylan “uses artistic means” to create a political multidimensional
dialogue avoiding traditional dichotomies.
434. Sussler, Betsy. “James McLure.” BOMB 5 (1983): 32–34. http://

bombmagazine.org/article/234/james-mclure
Prints an interview with James McLure discussing, among other things,

his play The Day They Shot John Lennon which includes two characters
who had attended at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Contrasts their
reactions to John Lennon’s murder with those reactions of the other
characters.
435. “Woodstock Music Festival.” Aperture 107 (1987): 56.
Reproduces a photograph taken by Jason Laure at the 1969 Woodstock

Music and Art Fair in a thematic issue titled “Mothers & Daughters: That
Special Quality.”
436. Young, Julian. “Artwork and Sportwork: Heideggerian Reflections.”

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57.2 (1999): 267–277. https://doi.
org/10.2307/432318
Theorizes Martin Heidegger’s “principal paradigm of the artwork is

more illuminating with respect to modern sport than it is with respect
to modern art.” Evokes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an alleged
Heideggerian artwork, but acknowledges it was “a barren event”
without successors, making it a “reactive phenomenon, a protest against
the way of life that had led to the Vietnam war rather than the positive
affirmation of the integrity of any, even subcultural, community.”
Proclaims sporting events are better representations of Heideggerian
artwork because of the coming together of players and spectators into a
large group consisting of a wide societal cross-section.
Websites
437. Brau, Edgar. “Woodstock.” 2007. http://wordswithoutborders.org/
article/woodstock
Offers a poem by the Argentine author, translated by Michael McKay

Aynesworth.
Authors, Editors and
Directors Index
Authors, editors, and directors of items cited in this work are listed.
Numbers following the names are the citation entry numbers, not page
numbers.
Abril, Carlos R.: 332 Bennett, Andy: 2, 44, 55, 59, 69, 72,
Alan, Carter: 134 225, 308, 320, 371
Allen, Dave: 308, 320 Benson, Kathleen: 205
Ambrose, Joe: 40 Bernstein, Abraham: 79
Anderson, Terry H.: 41 Bernstein, Jacob: 187
Anson, Robert Sam: 135 Bischoping, Katherine: 65
Araújo, Samuel M.: 333 Biskind, Pete: 353
Arnold, Gina: 368 Bissell, Roger E.: 80
Aronowitz, Alfred G.: 185 Black, Johnny: 260
Aronowitz, Nona Willis: 75 Blake, Mark: 136
Arrigo, Bruce A.: 1 Blelock, Julia: 137
Auslander, Philip: 334 Blelock, Weston: 137
Bloom, Alexander: 54, 197
Baez, Joan: 259 Bloustien, Gerry: 44
Baker, Aaron: 369 Bodroghkozy, Aniko: 381
Baker, Michael Brendan: 369 Bordowitz, Hank: 138, 321
Banes, Sally: 395 Boyd, Joe: 261
Baritz, Loren: 42 Boyd, Todd: 309
Barron, Arthur: 380 Brackett, David: 45
Barsam, Richard M.: 370 Brady, John: 226
Bass, Amy: 186 Brant, Marley: 139
Bell, Dale: 367 Brau, Edgar: 437
Beller, Miles: 185 Braunstein, Peter: 219
Belli, Robert F.: 65 Breines, Wini: 54, 197
Brod, Doug: 222 Darity, William A.: 76

Brode, Douglas: 354 Davidson, Sara: 144
Brokaw, Tom: 3 de Yampert, Rick: 227
Brown, Amber: 340 DeGroot, Gerard J.: 145
Brown, Tony: 140 Demers, Jason: 86
Browne, Robert M.: 81 Denisoff, R. Serge: 5, 58, 356
Budds, Michael J.: 188 Dessner, Lawrence J.: 47
Burt, Ramsay: 417 Diltz, Henry: 48, 401
Dolin, Sharon: 420
Cagin, Seth: 355 Donnelly, Patrick: 257
Callahan, Maureen: 213 Dotter, Daniel: 49
Carlevale, John: 82 Downing, David: 264
Carson, David A.: 141 Doyle, Michael William: 196, 219
Casale, Anthony M.: 4 Draper, Robert: 146
Casey, M. A.: 26 Dray, Philip: 355
Cateforis, Theo: 218, 331 Dreyfus, Hubert L.: 88
Cavett, Dick: 189 Dumas, Timothy: 423
Cayton, Mary Kupiec: 70
Chang, Vanessa: 335 Ebert, Roger: 372
Chapple, Steve: 46 Echols, Alice: 7, 265
Chess, Richard: 418 Ecker, David W.: 424
Clague, Mark: 336 Edgar, Robert: 373, 377, 379
Clarke, Eric F.: 322 Eisen, Jonathan: 52, 73
Clecak, Peter: 83 Eisenstadt, Peter R.: 200
Cloonan, Martin: 20 Eliot, Marc:Ennis, Philip H.: 9
Coates, Norma: 190 Epstein, Jonathan S.: 49
Collier, Barnard L.: 191 Ertegun, Ahmet: 396
Cooke, Alistair: 192 Espen, Hal: 90
Cooke, Douglas: 193 Ethen, Michael: 91
Cooke, John Byrne: 142 Evans, Mike: 147
Cooke, Jon B.: 419 Evans, Richard: 158
Corning, Amy: 84 Evans, Ron: 397
Costello, Brannon: 419 Evers, Alf: 148, 149
Costello, Donald P.: 382
Cray, Ed: 185 Fairclough-Isaacs, Kirsty: 373, 377,
Crosby, David: 262 379
Cross, Charles R.: 263 Fast, Susan: 324
Cullen, Jim: 194 Fine, Gary Alan: 10
Cunha, Victoria: 130 Fiori, Umberto: 92
Curry, Jack: 5 Fischer, Klaus P.: 50
Curtis, Jim: 143 Floyd, Samuel A.: 310
Fong-Torres, Ben: 198
Daley, Mike: 323 Fornatale, Pete: 150
Dalton, David: 195 Forti, Simone: 422
Francese, Carl: 151 Harris, Craig: 157

Friedlander, Paul: 152 Haskins, James: 205
Friedman, Lawrence S.: 357 Havens, Richie: 272
Frisch, Michael: 199, 200 Havers, Richard: 158
Hegedus, Chris: 258
Gair, Christopher: 11 Helfrich, Ronald: 96
Garofalo, Reebee: 46, 311 Helm, Levon: 273
Garson, Dan: 401 Henderson, David: 274, 338
Gelb, Arthur: 266 Henderson, Simon: 16
Gelfand, H. Michael: 153 Hernandez, Debra Gersh: 426
Gerdes, Louise I.: 53, 56, 64, 66, 77, Hertzberg, Hendrik: 206
154, 187, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, Hicks, Bob: 325
209, 210, 221, 223 Hill, Alfred: 97
Gittell, Myron: 155 Hillstrom, Kevin: 159
Glass, Phyllis: 93 Hillstrom, Laurie Collier: 159
Glatt, John: 267 Hirsch, Edward: 427
Glausser, Wayne: 51, 201, 306 Hoberman, J.: 428
Glebbeek, Caesar: 294 Hoffman, Abbie: 17
Goffman, Ken: 12 Holbrook, Emily: 98
Goldberg, Danny: 268 Hopkins, Jerry: 312
Goldstone, Bobbie: 383 Horner, Bruce: 71
Gordon, Andy: 52 Hoskyns, Barney: 160, 161
Gorman, Robert F.: 194 Howard, John A.: 99, 229
Gottlieb, Carl: 262 Howard, Thomas: 100
Gracyk, Theodore: 337 Huebel, Harry Russell: 47
Graebner, William: 199
Graham, Bill: 202, 269 Inglis, Ian: 190, 323
Grant, Barry Keith: 358 Isserman, Maurice: 230
Grant, Lisa: 412 Issitt, Micah L.: 18
Graves, Tom: 228
Gravy, Wavy: 203, 270 Jackson, Blair: 275
Green, Jonathon: 156 Jacobs, Lewis: 374
Greenfield, Robert: 202, 269, 271 Jacobs, Ron: 19
Grossman, Lloyd: 13 Jahn, Mike: 162
Guralnick, Peter: 213 Jennings, Nicholas: 313
Gutmann, David: 94 Johnson, Bruce: 20
Jones, Landon Y: 21
Hafen, P. Jane: 425 Jopling, Norman: 326
Hague, Joanne: 403 Joseph, Peter: 163
Halligan, Benjamin: 373, 377, 379 Joy, Dan: 12
Hamelman, Steven L.: 14
Hamilton, Neil A.: 204 Kaliss, Jeff: 276
Hansen, Gary N.: 95 Kato, M. T.: 359
Harrington, Joe S.: 15 Kaufmann, Donald: 339
Kellner, Douglas: 360 Littleproud, Brad: 403

Kennedy: 277 Logsdon, Gene: 404
Keyser, Les: 278 Losavid, Keri: 106
Kiester, Edwin, Jr.: 101 Lyons, Jack: 314
Kimball, Roger: 102 Lytle, Mark Hamilton: 57
Kindman, Michael: 279
King, Claire Sisco: 361 MacDonald, Stephen: 374
Kingsbury, Paul: 147 Madden, David W.: 211
Kirkpatrick, Rob: 208 Makower, Joel: 165
Kisseloff, Jeff: 307 Manchester, William: 166
Kitts, Thomas M.: 384 Manderson, Desmond: 341
Klein, Naomi: 22 Manning, Sean: 327
Klein, Pip: 53 Marcus, Daniel: 167
Knauer, Kelly: 220, 421 Marcus, Greil: 168, 212, 363
Kohl, Paul R.: 103 Marom, Maya K.: 342
Konečni, Vladimir J.: 340 Marsh, Dave: 284
Kopkind, Andrew: 54 Marshall, Jim: 312
Kopper, Philip: 231 Mathewes-Green, Frederica: 131
Kornfeld, Artie: 280 Maxile, Horace J., Jr.: 343
Kotler, Jonathan: 185 McDermott, John: 285
Kozinets, Robert V.: 104 McDonald, Joe: 245, 246, 308
Kremer, S. Lillian: 418 McDonough, Jimmy: 286
McElhaney, Joe: 364
La Rosa, Melanie: 385 McGiverin, Bruce J.: 107
Laing, Dave: 55 McHugh, Catherine: 233
Landy, Elliott: 399, 400 McKeen, William: 202
Lane, Steven: 243 McMichael, Joe: 314
Lang, Michael: 184, 281, 401 McNally, Dennis: 169
Langum, David J.: 282 Meade, Marion: 58
Laube, Heather: 125 Mercer, Kobena: 23
Laufer, Erez: 258 Messenger, Cory: 386
Laure, Jason: 209, 232 Meyer, James: 429
Lawton, John: 402 Miles, Barry: 24
Leff, Leonard J.: 362 Miller, Timothy: 25
Lerman, Philip: 4 Mills, Randy K.: 287
Lerner, Adrienne Wilmoth: 48 Milovanovic, Dragan: 1
Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth: 48 Monaco, James: 365
Lerner, K. Lee: 48 Moodie, David: 213
Lerner, Steve: 210 Moore, Allan F.: 59
Lesh, Phil: 283 Morrison, Joan: 214, 215, 216, 217, 218
Levine, Barry Z.: 406 Morrison, Robert K.: 214, 215, 216,
Lieberman, Paul: 56 217, 218
Lifton, Robert Jay: 164 Mottram, Eric: 60
Lipner, Joseph: 416 Murchison, William: 109
Murphy, John J., Jr.: 113 Reynolds, Susan: 172

Murray, Charles Shaar: 315 Rime, Bernard: 65
Myers, Alice: 62 Roberts, John: 30
Myers, Marc: 316 Robins, Wayne: 173
Roby, Steven: 189, 207, 289, 326, 330,
Naremore, James: 364 376
Nieburg, H. L.: 110 Rodrick, Stephen: 64, 119
Niemi, Robert: 375 Rogan, Johnny: 174, 290
Noack, David: 234 Rohlehr, F. G.: 430
Nolan, Kenneth P.: 111 Romanowski, William D.: 356
Nunez, Sigrid: 327 Romberg, Chris: 376
Rosenman, Joel: 30
O’Grady, Jean: 43 Rowes, Barbara: 291
O’Rourke, John J.: 113 Rubin, Jerry: 31
Obst, Lynda Rosen: 203 Rubin, Mike: 222
Ohman, Marian M.: 188 Ruiz, Teofilo F.: 32
Onkey, Lauren: 219 Russo, Elena: 120
Paez, Dario: 65 Sackett, Linanne G.: 406

Panichas, George A.: 114 Saffle, Michael: 377
Parker, James: 235 Salgado, Richard P.: 121
Pegley, Kip: 324 Samuels, David: 122
Pell, George, Cardinal: 26 Sanjek, David: 132
Pennebaker, D. A.: 258 Santelli, Robert: 175, 318
Pennebaker, James W.: 65 Sargent, Keith Roberts: 376
Perone, James: 170, 328 Saunders, Dave: 378, 389
Peterson, Richard A.: 58, 115 Schehr, Robert Carl: 1
Pettman, Dominic: 27 Schowalter, Daniel F.: 390
Pilpel, Robert: 30 Schuman, Howard: 65, 84
Plasketes, George M.: 387 Schwartz, Steven: 431
Pollock, Bruce: 171, 317 Selvin, Joel: 292
Potash, Chris: 325 Shankar, Ravi: 293
Potter, Sean: 221 Shapiro, Alan: 432
Powers, Devon: 28 Shapiro, Harry: 294
Pratt, Ray: 29 Shapiro, Marc: 295
Sheehan, Rita J.: 176
Rahman, Ahmad A.: 116 Sheehy, Gail: 296
Rand, Ayn: 62 Sheehy, Michael: 236
Rauchway, Eric: 117 Shipley, Morgan: 237
Raymond, Marc: 366 Shriver, Jerry: 223
Rectanus, Mark W.: 63 Sia, Joseph J.: 407
Reeves, Richard: 118 Silas, Susan: 247
Reineke, Hank: 288 Silverman, Alan: 344
Reitinger, Douglas W.: 388 Simmons, Jerold L.: 362
Singleton, Carl: 211 Vider, Stephen: 128

Sisk, John P.: 123
Sklower, Jedediah: 368 Wachsberger, Ken: 279
Sloman, Larry: 297 Wadleigh, Michael: 394
Smedinghoff, Gerry: 124 Waksman, Steve: 70, 346
Smith, Chas: 33 Walker, Michael: 181
Snaevarr, Stefan: 433 Wallace, Rich: 411
Soares, Valérie I. O.: 408 Walter, Greg: 412
Sobcynski, Peter: 393 Walters, Barry: 331
Sobieraj, Sarah: 125 Wanic, Rebekah A.: 340
Sobran, Joseph: 66 Ward, Ed: 224
Sokol, David: 238 Warner, Simon: 225
Sonnenblick, Jordan: 409 Weiner, Rex: 36
Sorrell, Richard S.: 151 Weinstein, Deena: 71
Sounes, Howard: 298 Weinstein, Norman: 302
Spitz, Robert Stephen: 177 Weller, Sheila: 303
Spock, Daniel: 239 Wenner, Jann S.: 212
Stahl, Gerry: 126 Werner, Craig: 37
Stark, Jeff: 248 Westfahl, Gary: 413
Stern, Jane:Stern, Michael: 67 Westrup, Laurel: 392
Stillman, Deanne: 36 Whiteley, Sheila: 72, 368
Stokes, Geoffrey: 224 Wiener, Jon: 38, 73
Stradling, David: 178 Williams, Peter W.: 70
Street, John: 34, 68, 69 Willis, Ellen: 74, 75
Sullivan, Denise: 329 Wilmes, Ulrich: 405
Sussler, Betsy: 434 Wolman, Baron: 312, 414
Swiss, Thomas: 71 Wright, Julie Lobalzo: 379
Sylvan, Robin: 35
Szatmary, David P.: 179 Yasgur, Abigail: 416
Yasgur, Sam: 304
Tamarkin, Jeff: 180 Yoders, Jeff: 240
Tarantino, Michael: 405 Young, J. R.: 78
Taylor, Dallas: 299 Young, Jean: 184
Telotte, J. P.: 391 Young, Julian: 436
Tiber, Elliot: 300, 301, 410
Torn, Jon Leon: 127 Zanetti, Mary: 241
Tucker, Ken: 224 Zimmer, Dave: 305
Turino, Thomas: 345 Zito, Jack S.: 129
Tzekov, Jack: 408 Zolov, Eric: 39
Unterberger, Richie: 319

Subject Index
This is a detailed subject index to the relevant contents of the works

cited, not just to the annotations. Numbers following the subjects are
the citation entry numbers, not page numbers.
Abraham, Morris: 170, 177 Altman, Bill: 150

Abrams, Isaac: 137 Amatucci, Daniel: 165, 170
Abruzzi, Bill: 101, 165, 168, 169, 170, American Civil Liberties Union: 282
175, 177, 188 American Communist Party: 393
Ackerman, Ralph: 399 anarchy: 77, 86
Aday, Leslie: 260 Anderson, Miller: 150, 158
Aerosmith: 233 Andrews, Martin: 367
aesthetics: 59, 340 Anger Management Tour (2000): 139
African American dance: 417 Ann Arbor Blues Festival: 312
African American music: 2, 37, 205, Anthology of American Folk Music
309, 310, 339, 343, 346 (sound recording): 68
African Americans: 11, 23, 72, 116, 117, Any Given Sunday (film): 309
186, 309, 329, 331, 338, 343, 346 Apocalypse Now (film): 388
aging: 21, 65, 94 Apollo (Greek god): 80
agonistics: 110 Apollo moon mission: 62, 80, 195, 405,
Agri, Ticia Bernuth: 281 428
Albums, Paul: 137 Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy: 18,
Alexie, Sherman: 425 27, 43, 50, 60, 62, 80, 82, 436
Alice’s Restaurant (film): 11, 288 architecture: 238, 240
allegory: 315 Armed Forces Radio Network: 376
Altamont Speedway concert (1969) Aronowitz, Al: 135, 263, 281
(see also Gimme Shelter (film)): 6, 9, art: 126, 137, 140, 170, 321, 345, 366,
11, 18, 25, 41, 43, 45, 46, 52, 60, 90, 380, 401, 404, 405, 419, 424, 427,
91, 98, 103, 115, 133, 139, 143, 145, 429, 430, 433, 436
147, 151, 156, 159, 170, 175, 181, art curriculum: 424
190, 194, 195, 199, 200, 205, 224, artifacts: 158, 401
317, 321, 355, 356, 358, 364, 368, Ashley, Ted: 358
370, 375, 379, 384, 392, 429
Associated Press: 187 Beatles, The: 18, 38, 49, 50, 103, 137,
athletes: 16, 186 139, 147, 158, 159, 170, 177, 205,
Atlanta Pop Festivals: 57, 139, 175 224, 280, 317, 339, 356
Atlantic City Pop Festival (1969): 139, beatniks: 137, 159
170, 172, 175, 208, 407 Beck, Jeff: 139, 170, 224
Atlantic Records: 396 Begg, Pat: 256
atomic bomb: 27 Bell, Anne: 367
Audio Engineering Society (AES): 344 Bell, Dale: 150, 159, 165, 281, 367, 371
Auperlee, Joan: 150 Bell, Jonathan Dale: 367
Australia: 44 Belmont, Bill: 150, 165, 367
auteurism: 366 Beren, Peter: 165
authenticity: 334 Berger, Karl: 137
authority: 66 Berkeley Folk Festival: 312
Avandaro music festival (1971): 39 Berlin, Steve: 40
avant-garde: 377, 405, 417 Bernstein, Judi: 165
Ayers, Bill: 19 Bernuth, Ticia: 177
Bethel, NY: 5, 6, 24, 41, 47, 62, 67, 137,
Baba, Meher: 148, 214 139, 147, 148, 154, 155, 159, 168,
Babbs, Ken: 165, 170, 172, 270 170, 172, 176, 177, 199, 204, 208,
baby boomers: 1, 3, 4, 14, 18, 21, 22, 211, 224, 226, 239, 281, 301, 378,
36, 109, 131, 159, 166, 196, 222, 239, 390
317, 327, 378, 389 Bethel Businessman’s Association:
Baez, Joan: 11, 24, 37, 44, 49, 58, 68, 170
69, 73, 108, 139, 142, 147, 150, 158, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts see
159, 162, 164, 165, 168, 170, 172, Museum at Bethel Woods, The
175, 177, 184, 191, 206, 208, 250, Bibb, Porter: 367
258, 259, 261, 267, 268, 280, 281 Big Sur Folk Festival: 312
281, 291, 317, 327, 328, 348, 349, Billboard (magazine): 268
350, 351, 357, 370, 372, 378, 394, Binder, John: 367
397, 399 biography (see also BIOGRAPHY
Bakhtin, Mikhail: 103 chapter): 1, 30, 140, 159, 169, 174,
Balin, Marty: 150, 158, 171 198
Ballantine, Ian and Betty: 137 Black Panthers: 19, 57, 219, 280, 329
Band, The: 24, 73, 137, 139, 147, 150, Blackstead, Eric: 328
157, 158, 159, 160, 165, 168, 170, Blaylock, Ken: 426
175, 177, 184, 199, 208, 250, 258, Blind Melon: 131
267, 273, 280, 281, 290, 313, 317, Blood, Sweat & Tears: 24, 73, 139, 147,
318, 348, 350, 369, 387, 391, 397 150, 158, 159, 160, 168, 170, 175,
Barnet, Will: 137 177, 184, 199, 208, 250, 280, 281,
Barsalona, Frank: 169, 267 290, 313, 317, 348, 351, 397
Bath Festival of Blues (1969): 139 Bloomfield, Mike: 150, 317
Bath Festival of Blues and Blues Magoos: 137
Progressive Music (1970): 139 blues music: 338, 339
Baumgarten, Ludwig: 137 Blumberg, Skip: 385
Subject Index 167
Blumer, Lee Mackler: 5, 165, 177, 199, Capitol Records: 139, 177, 280
281 Captain Beefheart and His Magic
Bonnaroo: 76, 139 Band: 103
Boudin, Kathy: 19 Caribbean: 430
boycotts: 381 Carlos, John: 16, 186
Boyd, Joe: 150, 244, 261 Carson, Johnny: 3
Branton, Allen: 233 Casady, Jack: 139, 150, 158
Brazilian popular music: 333 Caserta, Peggy: 142, 265
brega music: 333 Cash, Johnny: 317
Brooks, Alex: 367 Catcher in the Rye, The (book): 83
Brooks, Marty: 150 Catskills Mountains: 148, 177, 178
Brown, Elizabeth: 165 Caufield, Holden: 83
Brown, James: 339 Cavaliere, Felix: 150
Brownmiller, Susan:Bruce, Lenny: 17 Cavett, Dick: 150, 189, 290, 305, 336
Bruggeman, Julius: 137 Celebration of Life (1970): 175
Buffalo Springfield: 305 Censorship: 426
Buggles, The: 373 Centrex Clinical Laboratories: 129
Burden, Eric: 133 Chavis, Ben: 116
Burgess, Anthony: 382 Chaykin, Howard: 419
Burning Man festival: 10, 98, 104 Chemical Brothers: 248
Bush: 248 Chester, John: 344
business see finances Chicago, IL (1968): 52, 57, 147, 196
Butterfield, Paul: 24, 137, 139, 147, 150, Chicago Tribune (newspaper): 236
158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 175, 177, Children of God: 137
208, 250, 258, 273, 280, 281, 328, children’s literature: 406, 416
348, 349, 350, 351, 377, 394 Christensen, Edward: 159
Byrds, The: 158, 162, 305, 317 Christianity: 26, 99
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: 63
California Jam: 91, 175 Cincinnati Enquirer (newspaper): 236
California Jam II: 139 Cirigliano, Charles: 367
Calley, William, Lieutenant: 195 Civil Rights: 2, 16, 41, 72, 116, 133, 147,
Camp Winnarainbow: 237 159, 196, 219, 223, 230, 231, 249,
Campbell, Joseph: 150 309, 315
campus unrest: 179 Civil War: 230, 413
Canada: 313 civilization: 10, 77
Canned Heat: 24, 37, 73, 139, 147, 150, Clapton, Eric: 317
158, 159, 168, 170, 175, 177, 181, Clayton-Thomas, David: 313, 397
184, 208, 244, 250, 258, 261, 266, Cleaver, Eldridge: 31
280, 281, 318, 328, 344, 348, 349, Clinton, George: 248, 276
350, 358, 378, 394, 399
Clockwork Orange, A (film): 382
Cannes Film Festival (1970): 367
Coachella Valley Music and Arts
capitalism: 8, 18, 20, 28, 30, 54, 55, 73, Festival: 98, 139
86, 100, 126, 132, 177, 200, 226, 228,
Coakley, Joseph: 165
321, 368
Cobb, George L.: 170 Country Joe and the Fish: 4, 9, 24, 37,
Cocker, Joe: 24, 59, 131, 139, 147, 150, 73, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, 168, 170,
158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 175, 177, 175, 177, 202, 208, 212, 245, 246,
199, 208, 224, 226, 250, 258, 267, 250, 258, 280, 281, 307, 308, 320,
280, 281, 318, 328, 344, 348, 349, 328, 349, 350, 351, 394, 397
350, 351, 357, 367, 372, 394, 397, country rock music: 162
399, 421 Cox, Billy: 260, 263, 347
Cohen, Bert: 165, 177 Coyote, Peter: 133
Cohen, Harold: 165 Cracker: 26
Cohen, Kip: 202, 269 creative indexing: 345
Cohen, Ralph: 170 Creedence Clearwater Revival: 4, 24,
Cohen, Steve: 165, 170, 177, 184 37, 73, 138, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159,
cold war: 27 168, 175, 177, 184, 199, 208, 244,
Coleman, Norm: 239 250, 267, 280, 281, 291, 317, 350,
Collier, Barnard: 159, 187, 266 377, 393, 394
Collins, Judy: 181, 317 crime: 1, 99, 100, 293
Colomby, Bobby: 150 Crist, Charlie: 165
Coltrane, John: 315 Cronkite, Walter: 137, 150
Columbia University: 380 Crosby, David: 165, 174, 188, 262, 299,
Comic Book Artist (magazine): 419 281, 305, 397
commercialism: 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 18, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 24, 73,
20, 22, 24, 25, 28, 40, 41, 46, 49, 50, 108, 139, 146, 147, 150, 158, 159,
53, 54, 55, 57, 61,63, 64, 68, 74, 76, 162, 168, 170, 174, 175, 177, 181,
90, 102, 112, 117, 119, 128, 131, 145, 188, 199, 208, 212, 220, 224, 250,
148, 152, 159, 171, 175, 177, 193, 258, 262, 264, 267, 280, 281, 286,
199, 211, 222, 224, 233, 250, 265, 290, 299, 303, 305, 313, 317, 318,
355, 374, 376, 381, 392 319, 328, 348, 349, 350, 351, 357,
358, 378, 394, 396, 397, 399, 421
communes: 18, 25, 50, 163, 203
Crow, Sheryl: 331
communication: 187, 191, 225, 279,
381, 390 Cummings, Bill: 56
Concerned Citizens of Wallkill: 165,
170, 177, 291 Daltrey, Roger: 150, 195, 399
Concert for Bangladesh: 170 Daly, Carson: 213
Concert for Bangladesh, The (film): 356 D’Amico, Paul: 5
Congressional Medal of Honor: 287 dance: 140, 345, 364, 395, 417, 422
Conservative Mind, The (book): 124 Dando, Evan: 131
Constanten, Tom: 5 Danko, Rick: 137, 165, 281
Cook, Stu: 150 Dass, Ram: 137
Cooke, John: 142 Davis, Clive: 150
Copeland, Pan: 137 Davison, Jon: 202, 269
Coppola, Francis Ford: 388 Day They Shot John Lennon, The (play):
copyright: 85, 93, 107 434
Corbett, Edward P. J.: 81 Deadline Club: 85
counterculture see youth culture death: 94, 139, 165, 169, 208, 213, 392,
434
Subject Index 169
defamation law: 97 Dunbrook, Harrison: 170

Deleuze, Gilles: 86 Durant, Sam: 429
democracy: 79 Durant, Will and Ariel: 137
Denson, Ed: 307 Durst, Fred: 40, 128, 248
Denver Pop Festival: 139, 172, 175, Dylan, Bob: 73, 137, 139, 148, 150, 157,
208 158, 159, 162, 168, 170, 171, 177,
Denver Post (newspaper): 188 178, 184, 205, 206, 233, 280, 298,
Detroit, Michigan: 141 317, 319, 320, 369, 433
deviance: 49
Diamond Horseshoe Hotel: 170 Eager, Samuel: 165, 170, 177
Diesel: 30 Earthlight Theater: 30, 139, 170, 208
Diltz, Henry: 5, 150, 170, 265, 281, 399, Easy Rider (film): 355, 360, 382
412 Economic Supper Club of Phoenix:
Dionysus see Apollonian/Dionysian 124
dichotomy economy: 8, 21, 111
Dire Straits: 373 Edinger, Harry: 137
Disney, Walt: 354 education: 79, 100, 125, 153, 332, 424
Disneyland: 104 Edwards, Harry: 133
DMX: 309 Egan, Michael: 238, 256
documentaries: 93, 107, 124, 235, 258, Egan, Peggy: 137
281, 355, 356, 364, 367, 368, 369, Eger, Miriam: 367
370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 377, 379, ego: 94
381, 384, 385, 387, 390, 391, 393, Ehrenreich, Barbara: 133
394 Eisgrau, Mike: 150
Dohrn, Bernadine: 19 El Monaco Hotel: 170, 177, 300, 301
Doors, The: 18, 50, 60, 139, 158, 170 Elections: 96
Dougherty, Eugene: 362 Electric Daisy Carnival: 98
Douglas, Alan: 150, 281 Electric Lady: 137
Dow, Richard: 170 Elliot, Rona: 147, 165, 281
Drake, Franklin: 137 Elliott, Jack: 137
drama: 140 Elliott, Jon: 137
Drevers, Jay: 165, 177 Ellsberg, Daniel: 133
drug culture: 2, 3, 8, 18, 20, 24, 25, 41, Elshtain, Jean: 87
50, 51, 57, 62, 76, 90, 94, 98, 99, 101, Emerson, Keith: 315
105, 112, 116, 128, 129, 135, 139,
Ercoline, Nick: 423
141, 145, 155, 159, 167, 168, 169,
Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (1972):
170, 171, 172, 175, 177, 184, 185,
139
199, 201, 203, 208, 210, 214, 216,
226, 229, 231, 265, 266, 270, 271, Ernotte, Andre: 301
272, 273, 277, 280, 281, 283, 284, Errico, Gregg: 150, 292
287, 288, 291, 293, 295, 296, 299, Ertegun, Ahmet: 150, 367, 396
308, 327, 330, 421, 430 Esposito, Michael: 137
Dryden, Spencer: 150, 291 Estaver, Paul: 165
Dubetsky, Fred: 165 ethnicity: 84, 346
duende: 427 Europe: 92
Evers, Alf: 137 food: 15, 30, 41, 145, 165, 166, 168, 170,
experimental films: 380, 385 172, 175, 177, 191, 193, 197, 203,
experimental music: 126 205, 237, 242, 247, 253, 266, 270,
281, 284, 327, 432
Fabbri, John: 165, 177 Food for Love: 30, 165, 170, 177, 184,
Fabricant, Herbert: 170 235, 281
Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Foreman, Michael: 137, 170
Music Festival (1967): 115, 158, Forti, Simone: 395, 417, 422
175 Foster, Paul: 421
Farley, Christopher: 150, 415 framing theory: 236
farming (see also nature): 18, 304, 404 Frank, Jackson: 137
Farrakhan, Louis: 116 Franklin, Dale: 291
Farrell, Perry: 223, 321 Freedom/Motherless Child (song): 249,
fashion: 77, 187 272
Fass, Bob: 137 Freiberg, Sam: 269
Fava, Frank: 165 French Revolution: 54
Feldman, Anne: 5 Frick, David: 350
Feldman, Bert: 170 Friedman, Jane: 170, 268, 281
Feliciano, Jose: 186 Friedman, Myra: 150, 165, 265
Fellows, Mary: 122 Friedman, Rufus: 5
feminism: 58, 87, 127, 383 Fyre, Northrop: 43
Fender Stratocaster: 289 Fuentes, Carlos: 133
fertility: 21 Fugees: 248
Festival (film): 372 Full Metal Jacket (film): 388
Festival of Hope (1972): 115
Festival of the Flower Children Gabriel, Peter: 44
(1967): 139 Gabriel, Roy: 165
Field, Jeanne: 165, 367 Gaede, Jean: 137
Fields, Danny: 297 Galax, VA, Fiddlers Convention: 312
Filippini, William: 30, 165, 170 Ganoung, Don: 165, 170, 177, 281
Fillmore East: 147, 177, 202, 267, 290 Garcia, Jerry: 150, 158, 163, 169, 269,
film (see also FILM chapter): 11, 121, 271, 275, 317, 351, 399
140, 195, 235, 252, 258, 278, 347, Garson, Dan: 399, 401
348 Gathering of the Tribes, A (1990): 139
film ratings: 121, 355, 362 Gathering of the Vibes (1996): 139
finances: 30, 55, 90, 118, 145, 147, 154, Gavras, Rick: 165
158, 160, 177, 184, 191, 198, 267, Geffen, David: 181, 290
280, 281, 284, 289, 290, 291, 321, Gelb, Arthur: 266
355, 356, 358 gender: 346
Fink, Joe: 165, 170, 177 Generation X: 131, 193, 222
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 137 Georgia Old Time Fiddlers
Fogerty, John: 138, 150, 223, 397 Convention: 55
folk music: 205, 319 George, Ed: 367
Fong-Torres, Ben: 401 Geraghty, Jane: 202, 269
Subject Index 171
Gibson, William: 413 Greening of America, The (book): 18,

Gimme Shelter (film) (see also Altamont 57, 102
Speedway concert (1969)): 55, 190, Griffin, Merv: 367
355, 364, 368, 370, 379, 384, 387, Grimm, Tom: 165
390, 391, 392 Gross, Henry: 150
Ginsberg, Allen: 59, 60, 137, 158, 317 Gross, Richard: 170
glam rock: 334 Grossinger’s resort: 165
Glaser, Milton: 137 Grossman, Albert: 8, 15, 46, 73, 137,
Glastonbury festival: 55, 139, 147 160, 165, 170, 184, 281, 290
Gleason, Ralph: 190 Grossman, Sally: 137
Globe, The (magazine): 144 Group 212: 137
Gold, Steve: 165 group behavior: 10
Goldberg, Danny: 268 groupies: 299
Goldmacher, Donald: 165, 170, 177 Guardian, The (newspaper): 192, 225
Goldman, Emma: 137 Guattari, Feliz: 86
Goldstein, Robert: 253 Guns N’ Roses: 131
Goldstein, Stanley: 30, 137, 139, 147, Guthrie, Arlo: 24, 37, 73, 108, 131, 133,
150, 159, 165, 170, 177, 184, 199, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, 165, 168,
270, 281 170, 175, 177, 208, 220, 224, 243,
Goodrich, Peter: 137, 165, 170, 177, 250, 256, 257, 258, 280, 281, 288,
184 317, 319, 328, 344, 348, 349, 350,
Goose Lake International Music 351, 367, 378, 389, 394, 397, 399,
Festival (1970): 91, 139 401
Gordy, Barry: 317
Gould, Jonathan: 281 Haight-Ashbury see San Francisco,
Graham, Bill: 46, 55, 60, 91, 150, 160, CA
165, 170, 177, 198, 202, 265, 267, Hair (rock opera): 317
269, 281, 283, 295, 302, 305, 317, Hanley, Bill: 147, 150, 159, 165, 170,
414 177, 199, 316, 344
Graham, Larry: 150, 292 Harbutt, Charles: 399
graphic novels: 419 Hard Times: An Oral History of the
Grateful Dead: 12, 24, 30, 73, 76, 138, Great Depression (book): 163
139, 147, 150, 152, 158, 159, 161, Hardin, Tim: 24, 137, 139, 147, 150,
163, 165, 168, 169, 170, 175, 177, 158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 175, 177,
184, 199, 208, 235, 250, 267, 271, 184, 208, 223, 247, 250, 258, 272,
273, 275, 280, 281, 283, 291, 318, 280, 281, 319, 348, 350, 351, 378,
351, 377, 393, 394, 397, 398, 399 399
Gravenites, Nick: 150 Harp, Ruth: 137
Gravy, Wavy see Wavy Gravy Harris, David: 164
Grease Band: 250, 280, 281, 399 Harrison, George: 150, 170, 293, 317
Green, Alan: 165 Harron, Don: 43
Green, Carol: 165 Hart, Mickey: 40, 150, 169
Greene, Sylvia: 5 Hartley, Keef: 24, 139, 147, 150, 158,
Greenberg, Leon: 165, 170 159, 170, 175, 177, 250, 280, 281
Greenhill, Manny: 170
Havens, Richie: 4, 24, 37, 59, 73, 108, history (see also HISTORY chapter):
139, 147, 150, 158, 159, 164, 165, 2, 5, 12, 13, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34,
168, 170, 172, 175, 177, 181, 184, 37, 46, 49, 53, 60, 61, 65, 68, 69, 71,
206, 208, 230, 235, 246, 250, 255, 72, 102, 133, 269, 273, 275, 282, 284,
257, 258, 272, 280, 281, 297, 300, 285, 286, 290, 291, 301, 304, 305,
317, 319, 326, 328, 329, 348, 349, 308, 316, 317, 321, 332, 334, 339,
350, 351, 358, 370, 372, 379, 394, 353, 363, 390, 396, 401
397, 399, 400, 410, 421 history (1960s): 3, 7, 11, 17, 18, 24, 27,
Hayden, Tom: 83, 133 36, 41, 42, 50, 52, 72, 82, 83, 86, 96,
Haydn, Joseph: 340 103, 109, 144, 145, 156, 161, 163,
Heatwave (festival): 139 167, 171, 194, 195, 199, 200, 205,
Hefner, Hugh: 393 208, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219,
Heidegger, Martin: 88, 126, 436 220, 231, 232, 237, 238, 239, 251,
261, 267, 307, 313, 317, 318, 319,
helicopters: 73, 139, 142, 155, 168, 170,
321, 328, 355, 370, 371, 378, 384,
177, 244, 259, 261, 266, 272, 281,
387, 398, 400, 401, 412, 428, 433
305
Hite, Bob: 150
Hell’s Angels: 45, 52, 60, 98, 115, 159,
170, 190, 199, 200, 216, 224, 317, Hitler’s Youth: 114, 124
370, 379, 390 Hodenfield, Jan: 146
Helm, Levon: 147, 273 Hoffman, Abbie: 4, 12, 17, 18, 24, 30,
Hendrix, Jimi: 11, 16, 23, 24, 37, 48, 49, 38, 41, 44, 52, 57, 60, 66, 67, 83, 86,
55, 59, 70, 72, 73, 108, 115, 117, 126, 90, 101, 136, 139, 141, 145, 146, 147,
137, 139, 140, 143, 145, 146, 147, 150, 154, 156, 165, 168, 169, 170,
150, 158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 172, 172, 175, 177, 184, 199, 200, 203,
175, 177, 179, 181, 184, 185, 186, 208, 220, 223, 228, 280, 281, 282,
189, 192, 199, 207, 208, 216, 219, 284, 291, 297, 314, 327, 351, 428
220, 230, 235, 239, 250, 258, 260, Hog Farm: 4, 6, 24, 30, 57, 62, 66, 73,
263, 267, 268, 269, 273, 274, 280, 122, 131, 139, 147, 148, 154, 155,
281, 285, 289, 290, 291, 294, 299, 158, 159, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170,
303, 305, 310, 315, 317, 321, 322, 172, 175, 177, 184, 185, 191, 193,
323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 197, 199, 200, 201, 203, 208, 211,
330, 332, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 224, 228, 231, 237, 242, 270, 280,
340, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346, 347, 281, 287, 296, 297, 303, 306, 372,
349, 350, 351, 357, 358, 359, 368, 432
370, 372, 376, 377, 379, 392, 393, Holiday Inn: 142, 169, 170, 171, 172,
394, 399, 417, 425, 427, 433 177, 291
Herman, Dave: 150 Holland, Brian “Dexter”: 331
heroin: 201 Hollies, The: 305
heroism: 361 Holloran, Jimmy: 4
Heron, Mike: 147 Hollywood: 358, 381
Herrera, Fred: 139 Holocaust: 65, 418
hierarchy: 103 Holzer, Jenny: 405
hip-hop music: 309 homosexuality: 300, 301
hippies see youth culture Hoon, Shannon: 40, 131
Hirsch, Howard: 170 Hosenball, Mark: 159
Hirsch, Tina: 367 Houst, Milton: 137
Subject Index 173
Howard, Lee: 177 Jeffrey, Michael: 137

Huckleberry Finn (book): 52 Jeffries, Garland: 281
Hudson, Garth: 147 Jeffries, Mike: 24
humanities: 100 Jerominek, Jerry: 137
humor: 237, 300, 410 Jethro Tull: 139
Hunter, Meredith: 98, 199, 379, 392 Jewel: 213
Hurricane Camille: 208, 221 Joerger, Jeffrey: 165, 177
Hyde Park Free Concerts (1968): 139 Johnson, Larry: 150, 165, 170
Johnston, Fred: 137
Icarus: 276 Jones, Bill T.: 417
idealism: 21, 116, 389 Jones, James Earl: 272
identity: 84 Jones, Jeff: 19
I’m Going Home (song): 318, 363 Joplin, Janis: 24, 42, 59, 66, 73, 108,
Imagine: John Lennon (film): 356 139, 142, 144, 147, 150, 158, 159,
Incredible String Band, The: 24, 139, 160, 161, 165, 168, 170, 175, 177,
147, 150, 158, 159, 165, 170, 175, 184, 199, 208, 250, 257, 258, 259,
177, 208, 244, 250, 258, 261, 280, 265, 267, 268, 273, 276, 280, 281,
281, 319, 351, 368 287, 290, 291, 307, 317, 327, 348,
instruments: 140 350, 351, 377, 392, 393, 394, 399,
insurance: 98 421
internet: 61 Jordan, Jimmy: 5
interviews (see also oral histories): 133, journalism see news media
150, 165, 189, 198, 207, 226, 237, Joyce, James: 137
243, 257, 258, 260, 286, 326, 330, Joyner, Richard: 148, 226
347, 374, 376, 385, 393, 414 Judson Dance Theater: 417
Iron Butterfly: 165, 170, 177, 184, 397
irony: 334 Kantner, Paul: 158, 161, 165, 223, 283,
Isle of Wight festival: 73, 115, 139, 147, 291
170, 273, 376 Kaplan, Jonathan: 202, 269
It’s A Beautiful Day: 170 Kapralik, David: 276
Italy: 92 Karpel, Craig: 28
Kaufman, Len: 165
Jackson, Jesse: 133 Kaufman, Susie: 5
Jagger, Mick: 52, 60, 190, 379 Kay, Kenneth: 287
Jahn, Mike: 150 Keider, Don: 281
James, Dagon: 414 Keirsey, David: 80
James, Elmore: 338 Kelley, Ken: 297
jazz music: 2, 316, 338, 339, 341 Kelly, Bobbi: 423
Jefferson Airplane: 11, 24, 52, 73, 108, Kennedy (MTV VJ): 277
139, 144, 147, 150, 158, 159, 161, Kennedy, Rob: 281
165, 168, 170, 171, 175, 177, 180, Kent State University: 57, 179, 367,
184, 199, 208, 250, 255, 258, 267, 397
280, 281, 291, 303, 305, 317, 318, Kesey, Ken: 4, 60, 163, 165, 166, 172,
319, 320, 328, 349, 350, 351, 390, 306
393, 394, 397, 399, 420, 421, 423 Key, Francis Scott: 337
Kid Rock: 248 Langhart, Chris: 147, 150, 165, 170,

Kilkenny, Ossie: 40, 122, 159, 213 177, 184, 199, 269, 281, 344
Kimble, Joseph: 177 language: 309
Kindman, Michael: 279 Last Waltz, The (film) (see also Band,
King, Albert: 338 The): 358, 369, 377, 387, 391
King, Allan: 370 latino rock music: 329
King, Carole: 303, 317 Laure, Jason: 435
Kingsbury, Robert: 168 Laurel Canyon: 181
Kinks, The: 224 law (see also legal issues): 30, 91, 93,
Kinnell, Chris: 56 96, 97, 98, 107, 121, 341
Kirk, Russell: 124 Law, Lisa: 40, 150, 159, 165, 170, 172,
Kissinger, Henry: 57, 133 258, 281, 367, 399
Kleinert/James Arts Center: 137 Law, Tom: 150, 165, 170, 260, 269, 270,
281
Knebworth: 139
law enforcement: 85, 99
knowledge: 65
Lawrence, Mel: 147, 150, 165, 170, 177,
Knowles, Mark: 106
184, 199, 269, 281
Kooper, Al: 150, 317
Lawrence, Wade: 187, 223, 231
Korn: 20, 40, 125, 213, 248
Leacock, Richard: 370
Kornfeld, Artie: 4, 5, 24, 30, 59, 60, 73,
Leary, Howard: 165, 170
76, 118, 139, 145, 147, 150, 157, 159,
165, 168, 169, 170, 175, 177, 178, Leary, Timothy: 12, 18, 41, 50, 57, 137,
179, 185, 196, 199, 200, 202, 208, 172, 317
211, 220, 228, 250, 255, 269, 280, Lebel, Jean-Jacques: 86, 297
281, 294, 303, 358, 403 Led Zeppelin: 224
Kramer, Eddie: 170, 195, 259, 285, 347 Lee, Alvin: 59, 150, 367, 399
Kramer, Lawrence: 147, 187 Lee, Ang: 301
Krassner, Paul: 150, 169, 279, 297, 401 Lee, Larry: 260, 347
Kubrick, Stanley: 388 Leeds, Peter: 170
Kunstler, William: 282 legal issues (see also law): 30, 93, 96,
Kyles, Samuel: 133 101, 107, 115, 139, 170, 228, 280,
281
Lambert, Kenneth: 426 legal profession: 111, 282
Landis, Roy: 150 Lemmon, Jack: 137
Landy, Elliott: 137, 397, 399 Lennon, John: 38, 139, 147, 280, 329,
334, 356, 434
Lane, Scott: 5
Lenox, Bob: 281
Lang, Michael: 4, 5, 24, 30, 38, 40, 46,
54, 55, 59, 60, 66, 73, 76, 118, 122, Lenzer, Don: 367
137, 139, 145, 147, 150, 152, 154, Leonard, Dave: 53
157, 158, 159, 165, 168, 169, 170, Lesh, Phil: 150, 283
175, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 188, Let It Be (film): 356
191, 195, 196, 198, 199, 200, 202, Levey, Chuck: 367
208, 211, 213, 220, 223, 228, 250, Levine, Barry: 399, 406
255, 258, 267, 269, 272, 280, 281, Levine, Bob: 260
294, 301, 303, 316, 321, 323, 344, Levine, Renee: 30
347, 355, 358, 367, 378, 397, 399, Levy, Arthur: 150
414, 421
Subject Index 175
Liberty, NY: 169, 226, 291 Manheim, Karl: 65

Lichtenstein, Grace: 266 Manson, Charles: 11, 41, 131, 143, 195,
Life (magazine): 6, 62, 90, 115, 162, 175, 222, 355, 375, 428
177, 182, 187, 236 maps: 177
lifestyle: 77 Mar y Sol Festival (1972): 115, 175
lighting: 165, 177, 233 Marcellino, Jocko: 5
Liis, Ron: 165, 170 Marcum, Stan: 198
Lilith Fair: 55, 139, 152, 321 Marcus, Greil: 68, 135, 146, 150, 225,
Limp Bizkit: 20, 40, 128, 151, 213, 248, 399
331 Marcuse, Herbert: 82
Lindbergh, Charles: 62 marijuana: 89, 94, 116, 170, 172, 208,
literature: 79, 120, 402, 406, 408, 409, 229, 282, 296
410, 411, 413, 416, 419, 420, 425, Marion, Jim: 150
427, 431, 432, 434 marketing: 61, 63, 112, 386, 392
Live 8: 139 Marsh, Dave: 150, 223
Live Aid (1985): 34, 44, 68, 69, 130, Marshall, Jim: 168, 414
139, 373 Marshall, Paul: 170, 177, 280
Live Earth: 139 Marshall Plan: 65
Lois, George: 401 Martini, Jerry: 292
Lollapalooza: 55, 139, 152, 223, 321, Marx, Karl: 112, 124, 126, 137
368 Marxism: 83
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in mathematics: 241
Heaven, The (book): 425 Matthews, Dave: 213, 248
Long Time Gone (song): 290 Maurice, Bob: 170
Lomax, Jackie: 137 Max, Peter: 4, 137, 150, 401, 428
Lorca, Federico Garcia: 427 May, Vern: 137
Lord of the Flies (book): 52 Maymudes, Victor: 137
Los Angeles, CA: 181 Maysles brothers: 165, 355, 356, 364,
Los Angeles Free Press (newspaper): 367, 368, 369, 379, 384, 387, 390,
381 392
Los Angeles Times (newspaper): 56, MC5: 317
236 McCain, John: 153
Lourie, Felix: 170 McCartney, Paul: 280, 317
Lourie, Miles: 165, 170, 177 McDonald, Country Joe: 5, 24, 72, 108,
Lover Man (song): 285 135, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, 164,
Lowndes, Sara: 137 165, 168, 170, 175, 177, 179, 195,
LSD: 18, 50, 51, 159, 170, 172, 185, 191, 199, 230, 245, 246, 250, 258, 280,
201, 203, 210, 237, 260, 266, 275, 281, 297, 305, 307, 308, 319, 320,
282 328, 348, 349, 350, 351, 354, 358,
Lydon, Michael: 150 362, 367, 371, 372, 378, 379, 394,
Lyman, Richard: 109 397, 406
Lyons, Leo: 139 McIlwaine, Ellen: 137
McLachlan, Sarah: 152, 321
Mailer, Norman: 133 McLuhan, Marshall: 143
Malkine, Gilles: 281, 397 McLure, James: 434
Malone, Tom: 150 McMahon, Paul: 137
McManus, George: 177 Mitchell, Jim: 165, 177

McManus, James: 427 Mitchell, Joni: 24, 139, 145, 159, 170,
McNamara, Robert: 133 181, 290, 303, 305, 313, 317, 319,
Mead, Margaret: 150 416
Meca, Tommi Avicolli: 279 Mitchell, Joyce: 165, 281
medical care: 40, 41, 64, 89, 90, 101, Mitchell, Mitch: 260, 263, 281, 289,
105, 106, 112, 119, 129, 135, 139, 294, 347
145, 155, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170, Mizak, Ray: 139, 154
177, 191, 199, 201, 203, 210, 213, Moby: 248, 331
224, 281, 299 Moffitt, John: 137
Medical Committee for Human Mohawk, Essra: 171
Rights: 165, 170, 177 Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto:
Meese, Ed: 239, 256 139
Meet the Press (television show): 3 Monck, Chip: 6, 60, 139, 142, 143, 147,
Melanie: 24, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, 150, 158, 165, 168, 169, 170, 177,
168, 170, 175, 177, 195, 208, 216, 190, 199, 202, 208, 258, 260, 269,
244, 250, 258, 261, 280, 281, 317, 270, 280, 281, 286, 291, 299, 349,
319, 348, 350, 351, 368, 397, 399 351, 358
Melody Maker (magazine): 225 Monterey International Pop Festival
Melton, Barry: 133, 139, 150, 202, 265, (1967): 33, 37, 46, 55, 57, 91, 103,
269, 307 115, 132, 139, 142, 147, 150, 151,
memorabilia: 403 158, 159, 170, 172, 175, 194, 196,
memory: 65, 84 219, 280, 291, 308, 320, 321, 336,
Mendes, Barbara: 416 355, 356, 376, 384
Menzel, Peter: 399 Monterey Jazz Festival: 312
Merry Pranksters: 163, 165, 166, 170, Monterey Pop (film): 355, 356, 369, 384,
172, 270, 275, 303, 306, 421 387, 390
Mess Call (music): 93, 107 Monticello Raceway: 53, 165, 170
Messe, Ed: 133 Moody Blues, The: 170
Metallica: 213 Moon, Keith: 291
Mexico: 39 Morales, Hector: 165, 170
Meyer, Gene: 137, 165 morality: 99, 100
Meyer, Muffie: 367 Moratorium March on Washington
(1969): 81
Miami Pop Festival: 115, 139, 147, 170,
175, 184, 208, 281, 323 Morello, Tom: 40
Michigan State University: 279 Morissette, Alanis: 40, 248
Miles, Buddy: 181 Morrison, Jerry: 260
military: 47, 140, 153 Morris, John: 136, 147, 150, 165, 168,
169, 170, 177, 184, 199, 202, 258,
Million Man March (1995): 75, 116
267, 269, 281, 349, 351, 367, 399
Mills, Howard: 139, 170, 177
Morrison, Jim: 165
Milward, John: 415
Morrison, Van: 208
Milwaukee Pops Festival (1972): 115
Morthland, John: 150
Milwaukee Summerfest (1968): 139
mosh pits: 40, 64, 129
Minker, Jules: 170, 177
Moscow Peace Festival: 139
misogyny: 331
Subject Index 177
Motion Picture Association of Nambassa: 139

America: 121, 355 narrative: 172, 368, 372, 379, 390
motion pictures see film Nash, Graham: 150, 174, 299, 305
Motown: 205, 317 Nashville Skyline (sound recording):
Mount Pocono festival: 139, 175 162
Mountain: 24, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, National Jazz & Blues Festival: 158
170, 175, 177, 184, 250, 257, 258, National Review (magazine): 66, 206
280, 281, 318, 350, 351, 377, 394, Native Americans: 425
397 nature: 151, 162, 170, 368
Mountain Dance and Folk Festival: 55 Navarro, Dave: 277
Mt. Clemens Pop Festival: 312 Neil, Fred: 137
MTV: 20, 55, 90, 122, 213, 277, 373 Nelson, Willie: 248
Mud Dancing (poem): 418 Neuhaus, George: 5, 170
Mullican, Matt: 405 Neuwirth, Bobby: 137, 142
Museum at Bethel Woods, The: 147, Nevins, Nancy: 150
154, 196, 220, 223, 230, 231, 238, New Musical Express (magazine): 225
239, 240, 241, 251, 256, 393
New Orleans Pop festival (1969): 175
museums: 239, 240, 256
New Republic (magazine): 64, 102, 206
music (see also MUSIC chapter): 2, 11,
New York Post (newspaper): 185, 187
28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 44, 45, 51, 68,
New York State Office of Parks,
70, 78, 126, 137, 139, 150, 158, 166,
Recreation, and Historic
168, 170, 205, 215, 232, 261, 263,
Preservation: 240
274, 302, 303, 307, 363, 386, 396,
422 New York State Police: 85, 170, 177
music curriculum: 332 New York Times (newspaper): 62, 67,
102, 109, 114, 115, 147, 162, 170,
music festivals: 2, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 33,
175, 187, 191, 194, 199, 225, 230,
34, 35, 37, 38, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 50,
236, 252, 266, 355, 399
52, 55, 60, 61, 73, 92, 96, 98, 101,
115, 139, 140, 141, 147, 152, 156, New Yorker (magazine): 74, 197, 355
158, 159, 166, 168, 170, 175, 177, Newport Folk Festival: 52, 55, 147,
190, 194, 196, 204, 208, 224, 288, 170, 288, 312, 320, 407, 414
312, 313, 316, 319, 320, 321, 328, Newport Jazz Festival (1969): 55, 147,
330, 343, 346, 356, 368, 370, 376, 158, 170, 175, 208, 407
384, 388, 390, 407, 414 Newport Pop Festival: 115, 139, 158,
Music Midtown (1994): 139 175, 208
music sampling: 107, 335 news media: 3, 18, 22, 28, 38, 40, 46,
music theory: 337, 343, 345 49, 62,63, 69, 75, 76, 85, 90, 93, 100,
music therapy: 340, 342 109, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 125,
128, 135, 144, 146, 147, 159, 165,
music videos: 373, 387
167, 168, 175, 187, 188, 190, 191,
musicals: 391
197, 199, 225, 227, 230, 234, 236,
Muskrat: 349 250, 252, 266, 279, 281, 323, 426,
Myers, David: 165, 367 428
mythology: 2, 6, 18, 20, 25, 26, 29, 44, Newsweek (magazine): 115, 232
50, 67, 69, 82, 90, 92, 101, 102, 109, Nightbyrd, Jeff: 297
112, 130, 143, 145, 154, 167, 177,
nihilism: 120
181, 187, 190, 193, 196, 199, 218,
Nine Inch Nails: 131, 233
222, 225, 323, 382, 384, 429
Nixon, Richard: 57, 177, 229, 317 Peck, Charles: 367

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (film): Peirce, Charles Sanders: 345
369 Pelligrini, Bill: 5
No Nukes (film): 363 Pennebaker, D. A.: 356, 370, 384, 387,
Nolan, Kenneth: 111 390
North Carolina Bluegrass and Square Pepsi: 24,63, 152
Dance Festival: 312 performance: 93, 191, 299, 337, 343,
Northwest Passage (newspaper): 325 346
nostalgia: 2, 10, 44, 53, 167, 335, 371 Perry, Hart: 367
nudity: 159, 170, 208, 364, 432 Phair, Liz: 127
Philadelphia Society: 229
O’Barry, Ric: 281 philanthropy: 237
O’Brian, Tim: 401 philosophy: 18, 32, 62, 80, 86, 120, 126,
Ochs, Phil: 49, 319 337, 433
O’Connor, Keith: 30 Phish: 76
Official program: 183 photography: 24, 85, 137, 147, 158,
Offspring: 40 168, 176, 182, 184, 187, 203, 232,
Ogden Entertainment: 24 250, 252, 257, 312, 398, 399, 400,
Ohio State University: 128 401, 403, 406, 407, 412, 414, 415,
421, 423, 426, 435
Oliveira, Christine: 281
Plate, Marc: 137
Olympics (1968): 16, 186
Plato: 354
Olympics (1972): 186
Plenk, Bruce: 56
Omega Man (film): 361, 392
Pocono Pennsylvania Festival (1972):
Ono, Yoko: 317, 329
115
oral histories (see also interviews): 5,
poetry: 263, 338, 418, 420, 427, 437
140, 163, 165, 202, 203, 214, 215,
216, 217, 218, 252, 253, 254, 255, politics: 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18,
271, 292, 317, 403 19, 24, 25, 29, 31, 34, 37, 38, 39, 41,
42, 44, 49, 54, 57, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
Orson, Ellen: 5, 367, 371
72, 73, 74, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 90,
Osborne, Lee: 170
91, 92, 96, 99, 101, 109, 110, 112,
Owens, Jesse: 170, 186 115, 116, 124, 127, 133, 139, 140,
Ozark Music Festival: 139 141, 143, 145, 165, 167, 179, 186,
Ozzfest: 139 194, 199, 230, 236, 263, 280, 294,
297, 321, 322, 324, 329, 337, 341,
pacifism: 26 359, 360, 378, 381, 390, 430, 433
Pantel, Harold: 165 Polonsky, Sonya: 367
Pappalardi, Felix: 150 Polygram: 24
paradigms, cultural: 88 Pomeroy, Wes: 139, 147, 154, 165, 169,
Pareles, Jon: 159 170, 175, 177, 193, 199, 281
Partially Buried 1960s/70s: Utopia Pompili, Jerry: 202, 269
Reflected, Dystopia Revealed (art pornography: 125
installation, 1998): 429 postcolonialism: 120
patriotism: 345 poster: 66
Pattover, Andrew: 256 postmodernism: 334, 417
Payne, Roz: 281 Powder Ridge: 115, 175, 216
Subject Index 179
Presley, Elvis: 49, 317 Reynolds, Susie: 137

Prince, Charlie: 170 Reznor, Trent: 131
protests: 16, 72, 81, 132, 159, 287, 323, rhetoric: 81, 82, 127, 368, 390
381 Rhodes, James: 57
Pruitt, Liz: 213 Rinpoche, Guru: 137
psychology: 65, 80, 94, 128, 164, 340, riots: 20, 24, 26, 50, 61, 85, 98, 106, 122,
342 127, 128, 132, 151, 170, 208, 213,
punk rock: 334 248, 331
puerilism: 123 Ripp, Artie: 281
Purple Haze (song): 285, 315, 322 risk management: 98
Rissman, Barbara: 399
Quill: 24, 73, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159, ritual: 110
165, 168, 170, 175, 177, 208, 250, Roberts, Alfred: 177
258, 280, 281, 351, 397 Roberts, Elliot: 260
Roberts, John: 4, 5, 8, 15, 22, 24, 30, 46,
Rachlin, Chip: 150 60, 73, 76, 118, 137, 139, 145, 147,
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: 340 150, 154, 158, 159, 160, 165, 168,
racism: 40, 309 169, 170, 175, 177, 178, 179, 184,
Radio: 134, 173 191, 196, 199, 200, 202, 211, 220,
Rage Against the Machine: 128, 248, 228, 250, 258, 269, 280, 281, 294,
331 303, 367, 399
rain see weather Robertson, Robbie: 147, 150, 157, 273
Rakha, Alla: 293 rock music: 1, 6, 8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20,
Rambo (film): 360 28, 33, 34, 35, 39, 41, 45, 46, 49, 50,
Rand, Ayn: 18, 80, 82, 150, 159, 428 58, 60, 69, 71, 73, 92, 103, 115, 127,
131, 135, 143, 151, 159, 162, 166,
Randall’s Island Festival (1970): 115,
170, 171, 179, 188, 190, 196, 199,
175
211, 250, 267, 269, 284, 290, 315,
Rankin, Kenny: 150
318, 319, 321, 323, 328, 331, 334,
rape: 26, 40, 98, 125, 127, 170, 213, 293, 336, 339, 349, 350, 351, 356, 363,
331 371, 387, 388, 390, 392, 404
Rashomon effect: 150 Rockefeller, Nelson: 137, 139, 165, 168,
Rathke, Wade: 56 170, 177, 230, 393
Ratner, Louis: 165, 170 Rolison, Jay: 137
Rattle and Hum (film): 356 Rolling Stone (magazine): 6, 45, 46, 78,
Red Hot Chili Peppers: 128, 152, 213, 135, 146, 162, 187, 190, 195, 198,
277 212, 225, 236, 317
Red Top Hotel: 170 Rolling Stones: 18, 45, 49, 50, 52, 57,
Redding, Noel: 281, 289 60, 98, 115, 137, 147, 158, 159, 170,
Redding, Otis: 37 181, 190, 195, 199, 205, 224, 317,
Reich, Charles: 18, 57, 59, 102 321, 339, 356, 358, 369, 370, 373,
religion: 26, 35, 43, 99, 114, 131, 140, 379, 387, 390
143, 214, 216 Rome, NY: 24, 40, 129, 248
Reynolds, Bill: 170 Romm, Al: 165
Reynolds, Cliff: 170, 177 Romney, Bonnie Jean: 170, 177
Reynolds, Ken: 137 Romney, Hugh see Wavy Gravy
Rorty, Richard: 433 Scheer, Robert: 133

Rosenbaum, Marcus: 254 Scher, John: 55,63, 122, 170, 213
Rosenberg’s Hotel: 170 Scherer, John: 152
Rosenman, Joel: 4, 5, 24, 30, 73, 76, Schlesinger, Arthur: 159
118, 136, 139, 145, 147, 150, 154, Schlosser, Jack: 170, 177
159, 165, 168, 169, 170, 177, 179, Schneider, Dave: 213
184, 196, 199, 200, 202, 211, 220, Schnier, Stan: 150
222, 223, 228, 250, 258, 269, 280, Schoonmaker, Thelma: 147, 170, 278,
281, 294, 379 357, 358, 366, 367, 369, 393, 394
Roskind, Robert: 137 Schreibman, Faye: 297
Roszak, Theodore: 18, 59 Schultz, Charles: 24
Rounds, Tom: 115 Schwartz, Harriet: 150
Roxon, Lillian: 150 science fiction: 413
Rubin, Jerry: 52, 83 Scorsese, Martin: 147, 158, 165, 170,
Rudd, Mark: 19 202, 269, 278, 353, 356, 358, 365,
Russert, Tim: 3 366, 367, 369, 387, 391, 393, 394
Rusten, Shelly: 399 Scully, Nick: 271
Sea of Madness (song): 290
Salinas Country and Western Music Seale, Bobby: 133
Festival: 312 Seattle Pop festival (1969): 175
Salmagundi (publication): 87 Sebastian, John: 5, 24, 131, 137, 139,
San Francisco, CA: 7, 9, 18, 50, 52, 147, 147, 150, 158, 159, 165, 168, 170,
158, 161, 307, 319, 321 171, 175, 177, 208, 246, 250, 258,
San Francisco Earthquake: 54 261, 280, 281, 317, 319, 328, 348,
San Jose Rock Festival: 312 349, 350, 351, 378, 394, 397, 399
Sander, Ellen: 150 security: 30, 40, 54, 57, 66, 91, 98, 106,
Sanders, Ed: 297 112, 113, 139, 154, 165, 168, 170,
sanitation: 6, 14, 20, 24, 40, 41, 62, 101, 175, 177, 188, 191, 199, 200, 213,
128, 144, 145, 165, 166, 168, 170, 224, 228, 237, 239, 242, 270, 281,
177, 191, 193, 213, 265, 277, 281, 306
284 See, Bob: 150
Santana: 24, 51, 59, 139, 147, 150, 158, Self-Categorization Theory (SCT): 128
159, 161, 169, 170, 175, 177, 196, semantics: 337
198, 199, 202, 208, 224, 246, 250, semiotic theory: 335, 345
258, 267, 268, 269, 280, 281, 291, sexism: 40
295, 302, 317, 318, 327, 328, 344, sexuality: 27, 87, 364
349, 350, 351, 372, 379, 393, 394 sexually transmitted diseases: 167
Santana, Carlos: 51, 150, 169, 179, 195, SFX: 55
198, 202, 227, 260, 269, 281, 295,
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
302, 397, 414
(album): 103
Santelli, Bob: 150
Sha Na Na: 24, 139, 147, 150, 158, 159,
sarcasm: 345 165, 167, 168, 170, 171, 175, 177,
Saugerties, NY: 24, 170 208, 250, 258, 280, 281, 289, 317,
Scalici, Jack: 165 328, 334, 349, 350, 351, 372, 378,
Schaller, Ralph: 170 393, 394, 397
Subject Index 181
Shankar, Ravi: 24, 73, 135, 139, 147, 122, 123, 125, 128, 130, 131, 132,
150, 158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 175, 139, 140, 144, 167, 170, 172, 179,
177, 206, 208, 250, 258, 280, 281, 190, 194, 199, 200, 209, 236, 309,
291, 293, 371, 397, 399, 421 343, 345, 354, 358, 360, 368, 389,
Shapiro, Alan: 418 404, 424
Sheehy, Gail: 296 Soda Pop Festival (1972): 91, 115
Shine A Light (film): 369 Soles, P. J.: 150
Shotwell, James T.: 137 Solomon, Bob: 255
Shrieve, Michael: 59, 150, 239, 367 Sommer, Bert: 139, 147, 150, 158, 159,
Shurtleff, Jeffrey: 150, 328, 349, 350, 168, 170, 175, 177, 208, 250, 258,
351 280, 281, 351, 382
Sia, Joseph J.: 168, 170, 399 Soul music: 37, 339
Siebel, Paul: 137 Soul Sacrifice (song): 295, 302
Sife, Bud: 137 sound systems: 159, 165, 177, 195, 239,
Simon, Carly: 303 285, 316, 344
Simon, John: 150 South by Southwest: 139
Simon, Paul: 137, 317 Soza, Billy: 165
Simon & Garfunkel: 319 spirituality: 342
Simpson, Rose: 150 Spitz, Robert: 150
Sinclair, John: 6, 41, 90, 136, 141, 165, sports: 16, 128, 436
170, 297, 317 Springsteen, Bruce: 29
Skolnik, Arnold: 66, 139, 147, 170 stage lighting: 177, 208
Sky River and Lighter Than Air Stallings, Penny: 5, 165, 177, 199, 281
(1968): 175 Stanford University: 109
Slick, Grace: 150, 158, 190, 265, 291, Stanley, Owsley: 172, 271, 291
317, 351, 397, 399, 420 Stansfield, Patrick: 150, 298
Sly and the Family Stone (see also Star Spangled Banner, The (song): 11,
Stewart, Sylvester): 18, 24, 37, 73, 16, 23, 24, 37, 70, 72, 117, 126, 140,
115, 136, 139, 143, 144, 147, 150, 143, 145, 146, 172, 179, 186, 189,
158, 159, 161, 162, 168, 170, 177, 208, 216, 219, 220, 263, 269, 274,
208, 247, 250, 257, 258, 267, 269, 289, 294, 310, 315, 322, 323, 324,
273, 276, 280, 281, 292, 317, 326, 325, 330, 332, 335, 336, 337, 340,
327, 328, 348, 349, 350, 351, 357, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346, 347, 359,
358, 394, 397, 399 376, 378, 417, 425, 427, 433
Smith, Judson: 137 Statistics: 172
Smith, Phyllis: 367 Stern, Howard: 297
Smith, Tommie: 16, 186 Stewart, Sylvester: 49, 143, 150, 165,
Smucker, Tom: 225 276, 291, 292, 329, 399
Society of Professional Journalists: 85 Stills, Stephen: 147, 150, 174, 305
sociology: 1, 2, 4, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, stimuli: 340
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36, Stockhausen, Karlheinz: 126
42, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 56, 59, 62, 65, Stokowski, Leopold: 377
66, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, Stone, Ron: 5
84, 87, 88, 90, 94, 96, 100, 101, 102, Stone, Sly see Stewart, Sylvester
103, 108, 110, 111, 114, 116, 117, Stop Making Sense (film): 356
Stravinsky, Igor: 332 Ticketmaster: 55

Strawberry Statement, The (film): 381 Tillison, Roger: 137
Students for a Democratic Society Time (magazine): 12, 18, 62, 115, 125,
(SDS): 19, 83 188, 236
suicide: 287, 299 Tinkelman, Joe: 165
Sultan, Juma: 260, 347 Tork, Peter: 181
Sveikauskas, Geddy: 137 Toronto Peace festival (1970): 115
Swami Aumashananda: 137 Toronto Pop Festival (1969): 139, 273
Swami Satchadinanda: 24, 137, 139, Townsend, Charles: 165
147, 150, 158, 159, 165, 170, 235, Townsend, Clarence: 62, 178
246, 250, 378 Townshend, Peter: 4, 6, 12, 37, 38, 57,
Swanson, Janey: 367 60, 66, 90, 136, 139, 141, 146, 147,
Sweetwater: 139, 147, 150, 158, 168, 150, 156, 159, 165, 168, 169, 195,
170, 175, 177, 208, 250, 280, 281, 202, 220, 265, 269, 280, 284, 291,
351 297, 314, 399
systems theory: 1 traffic: 3, 15, 18, 30, 41, 53, 56, 95, 101,
135, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148,
T.A.M.I. Show, The (film): 356, 369 158, 159, 166, 168, 169, 170, 175,
Taggart, Tom: 159, 378 177, 178, 191, 197, 199, 200, 208,
Taking Woodstock (film): 109, 154, 201, 209, 212, 216, 224, 228, 232, 239,
223, 230, 235, 301, 358 247, 249, 263, 266, 272, 274, 279,
378, 423
Talking Heads: 356
Train: 170, 177, 281
Tapooz, Alexander: 137, 170
trash: 14
Taps (music): 219, 322, 323, 324, 325,
336 Traum, Artie: 137
Taylor, Dallas: 299 Traum, Happy: 137
Teague, Lewis: 367 Trent, Mike: 153
Teasdale, Parry: 255 tribalism: 33, 50
Teasdale, Penny: 281 Trinidad: 430
technology: 55,63, 368 Triumph of Will (film): 124
technology and art: 126, 316, 339, 344 Trout Mask Replica (album): 103
Ten Years After: 24, 37, 55, 73, 139, 145, Turbeville, Dan: 367
147, 150, 158, 159, 168, 170, 175, Turkel, Studs: 163
177, 208, 250, 258, 267, 273, 280, Twain, Mark: 137
281, 318, 319, 326, 327, 328, 349, Tyler, Steven: 134
350, 363, 394, 397, 399
terrorism: 84 U2: 356
Terry, Ron: 285 underground press: 159, 190, 206, 225,
Texas International Pop Festival 279, 381
(1969): 139, 175 United Block Association (Harlem):
Thompson, Bill: 150, 169, 202, 255, 269, 219, 330
291 United States Naval Academy: 153
Thorazine: 170, 201 United States Senate: 220
Tiber, Elliot: 139, 147, 150, 154, 158, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers:
170, 172, 300, 301 165, 170, 177, 235
Subject Index 183
US Festival (1982): 139 Wallkill, NY: 6, 24, 30, 54, 67, 96, 118,
US Festival II (1983): 139 139, 145, 147, 148, 149, 154, 157,
USA Today (newspaper): 223 165, 170, 172, 175, 177, 178, 184,
utopias: 11, 27, 44, 75, 311, 358 193, 199, 200, 208, 211, 220, 228,
Uzzle, Burk: 399, 423 230, 239, 280, 281, 291, 303
War on Poverty: 56
Valenti, Jack: 362 Ward, Bill: 165, 170, 177, 281
Van Loan, Ken: 165, 170 Ward, Jean: 165, 199
Vans Warped Tour (1995): 139 Warhol, Andy: 12
Vargas, Mark: 168 Warner Bros.: 30, 139, 154, 177, 181,
195, 278, 280, 353, 355, 356, 358,
Variety (magazine): 73, 355
367, 386, 387
Varney, Elbert: 137
Warnow, Stan: 367
Varsi, Gail: 137
Warren, Jim: 280
Vassmer, Arthur: 165, 205
Warshawsky, Diana: 165
Velez, Jerry: 260
Washington Post (newspaper): 236, 331
Velvet Underground: 103
Waterous, Bill: 298
Videofreex: 385
Waters, Muddy: 338
videotape: 121, 388
Watkins Glen Summer Jam (1973):
Vietnam War: 2, 3, 9, 18, 19, 27, 41, 42,
139, 175
47, 57, 65, 70, 72, 109, 116, 126, 132,
Watson, Albert: 415
133, 147, 159, 164, 172, 177, 179,
195, 196, 200, 223, 230, 231, 249, Watts, Alan: 137
272, 287, 294, 308, 315, 321, 323, Watts, Jacky: 291
324, 336, 341, 358, 361, 378, 388, Wavy Gravy: 6, 24, 56, 66, 122, 131,
389, 390, 412, 420, 434, 436 139, 147, 150, 154, 158, 159, 165,
Village Voice (newspaper): 28, 75, 210, 169, 170, 171, 172, 175, 177, 184,
225 185, 201, 202, 203, 224, 228, 237,
violence: 18, 20, 26, 38, 40, 45, 57, 239, 242, 258, 269, 270, 281, 303,
61,63, 64, 106, 125, 127, 128, 140, 306, 349, 351, 378, 403, 406, 416
144, 152, 170, 190, 222, 224, 248, WBCN (radio station): 134
280, 293, 324, 341, 361, 379, We’re Only in It for the Money (album):
Von Wilsheim, Ingrid: 170 103
Vortex I (1970): 139 weather: 24, 33, 48, 55,63, 66, 76, 112,
132, 139, 145, 146, 148, 154, 159,
Wadleigh, Michael (see also Woodstock 163, 166, 168, 169, 170, 172, 175,
(film): 55, 59, 136, 139, 147, 150, 184, 185, 191, 193, 197, 199, 206,
158, 159, 165, 170, 172, 177, 184, 208, 212, 214, 220, 221, 233, 242,
195, 198, 202, 208, 211, 235, 269, 244, 249, 261, 275, 280, 281, 283,
278, 280, 284, 289, 314, 355, 356, 291, 293, 327, 358, 374, 421, 432
357, 358, 366, 367, 368, 370, 371, Weathermen underground: 19, 57
378, 379, 381, 383, 384, 387, 389, Weber, Max: 18
390, 392, 393, 394 Weiner, Lawrence: 280, 405
Wall Street Journal (newspaper): 77, Weingrad, Stephen: 177
236, 374 Weintraub, Fred: 172, 353, 358
Wallin, Dan: 367 Weir, Bob: 150
Wenner, Jann: 135, 150, 187 147, 150, 151, 154, 158, 159, 160,
Wertheimer, Al: 367 161, 164, 165, 170, 171, 172, 175,
West, Bill: 137 180, 181, 184, 193, 195, 198, 200,
West, Leslie: 150, 257, 397, 399 202, 208, 220, 235, 250, 258, 261,
Westerfield, Sidney: 358, 379 262, 265, 267, 268, 269, 276, 278,
280, 281, 286, 289, 290, 302, 308,
Westlake Reed Leskosky (architecture
314, 315, 320, 323, 327, 328, 333,
firm): 240
336, 344, 348, 353, 355, 356, 357,
When You Find Out Who You Are
358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 364, 365,
(song): 244
366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372,
White, Josh: 150, 165 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379,
White House, The: 229 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387,
White House News Photographers 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394,
Association: 426 396, 398, 406, 430
White Lake, NY: 30, 147, 170, 172, 177, Woodstock (song): 159, 181, 290, 303,
210, 300, 301 305, 319, 416
White Panthers: 90, 141, 297 Woodstock: Music from the Original
Who, The: 11, 24, 49, 59, 73, 108, 136, Soundtrack and More (sound
138, 139, 144, 145, 147, 150, 158, recording): 45, 51, 55, 78, 90, 132,
159, 165, 168, 169, 170, 175, 177, 151, 158, 159, 160, 170, 193, 250,
184, 202, 208, 216, 224, 250, 257, 261, 274, 276, 289, 290, 318, 328,
258, 267, 269, 280, 281, 284, 291, 349, 350, 351, 386, 420, 423
297, 314, 318, 321, 327, 328, 344, Woodstock ’79: 53, 139
349, 350, 351, 358, 378, 393, 394, Woodstock ’89: 139
397, 421 Woodstock ’94: 1, 22, 24, 40, 55, 61, 63,
Wild Thing (song): 336 64, 89, 90, 95, 102, 105, 112, 113,
Wilber, Jeremy: 137 114, 117, 119, 131, 134, 139, 151,
Wilkins, Roger: 133 152, 154, 158, 159, 170, 200, 201,
Willis, Ellen: 150 221, 222, 227, 233, 234, 252, 277,
Wilson, Malcolm: 170 286, 298, 311, 415, 426
Winter, Edgar: 139 Woodstock ’99: 1, 20, 24, 26, 40, 55,
Winter, Johnny: 24, 73, 139, 147, 150, 61,63, 85, 98, 104, 106, 117, 122,
158, 159, 168, 170, 175, 177, 208, 125, 127, 128, 129, 139, 151, 152,
250, 258, 268, 273, 280, 281, 350, 154, 159, 170, 200, 213, 248, 252,
351, 377, 394, 397, 399 309, 311, 331
Wisconsin Forum: 99 Woodstock Preservation Alliance:
Wiseman, Frederick: 370 251, 403
Wolman, Baron: 146, 165, 168, 203, Woodstock Two (sound recording): 158,
399, 414 193, 202, 250, 289, 318, 328, 349,
WOMAD: 44, 55 350, 351, 352
Woodstock―40 Years On: Back to Woodstock Ventures: 5, 6, 54, 60, 62,
Yasgur’s Farm (sound recording): 67, 74, 76, 90, 96, 139, 147, 148, 149,
250, 349, 350, 351 154, 158, 159, 165, 168, 170, 172,
175, 177, 184, 193, 199, 200, 208,
Woodstock (film): 8, 11, 24, 30, 47, 55,
223, 234, 250, 280, 281, 285, 298,
58, 59, 67, 68, 72, 73, 87, 90, 97, 118,
355, 356, 412
121, 124, 132, 138, 139, 143, 145,
Subject Index 185
Woodstock, NY: 4, 54, 96, 137, 142, youth culture: 1, 2, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17,
148, 149, 157, 170, 171, 172, 177, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 35, 38,
178, 196, 208, 273, 281, 298, 393 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52,
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and 54, 59, 61, 62, 66, 71, 74, 77, 78, 83,
Music (sound recording): 138, 349, 86, 88, 94, 102, 110, 111, 114, 116,
350, 351 124, 131, 132, 133, 135, 140, 143,
Wrapped Reichstag (art): 63 144, 145, 147, 151, 156, 158, 159,
Wu, Amy: 415 162, 164, 166, 170, 171, 172, 175,
177, 179, 188, 194, 199, 200, 204,
209, 210, 215, 217, 218, 223, 224,
Yasgur, Max: 4, 24, 30, 46, 48, 54, 76,
226, 230, 231, 237, 247, 266, 270,
118, 135, 139, 143, 147, 148, 150,
282, 287, 307, 311, 319, 331, 345,
151, 154, 155, 158, 159, 165, 168,
354, 355, 358, 359, 360, 361, 368,
169, 170, 172, 175, 177, 178, 184,
369, 371, 375, 378, 381, 382, 384,
185, 188, 193, 194, 199, 200, 204,
387, 389, 395, 404, 421, 425, 436
208, 210, 220, 223, 224, 226, 230,
266, 280, 281, 291, 301, 303, 304, YouTube: 220
323, 349, 351, 378, 390, 399, 412,
416 Zabriskie Point (film): 355, 381
Yasgur, Miriam: 150, 165, 170, 177, Zaloom, Chris: 137
281, 328 Zappa, Frank: 12, 103, 139, 334
Yasgur, Sam: 150, 223 Zimmerman, Zane: 137
Yippies: 31, 73 Zinn, Howard: 133
yoga: 170 Zodiac: 163
Young, Jean: 137 Zoppo, Del: 139
Young, Jim: 137
Young, Neil: 147, 150, 174, 260, 263,
264, 286, 290, 305, 313
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Woodstock Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
Jeffrey N. Gatten
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting
the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of
the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of
the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives
or seeking clarity. This interdisciplinary annotated bibliography records the details
of over 400 English-language resources on the Festival, including books, chapters,
articles, websites, transcriptions and videos. Divided into six main subsections—
Culture & Society, History, Biography, Music, Film, Arts & Literature—for ease of
consultation Woodstock Scholarship sheds light on all facets of a key happening in
our collective history.
Throughout the 1960s, popular music became increasingly reflective and suggestive
of the rising political and social consciousness of the youth culture. Examples can
be seen in the development of the protest song genre within the folk music boom
of the early Sixties and the marriage of lifestyle to music with fashion, followed
by psychedelic music with the emerging drug culture. Woodstock was also where
numerous facets of America during the turbulent Sixties coalesced, such as
the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and hippie movements. Thus Woodstock
scholarship does not stand alone as field of study, but it is at the cross-road of a
number of disciplines—music history, cultural studies, sociology, arts and literature,
media studies, politics and economics.
Providing full bibliographical details and concise, informative annotation for each
entry, this book is an essential tool for students, scholars, teachers, and librarians
in all these areas, as well as for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of both
the Woodstock Music and Art Fair phenomenon and of the confluence of music,
commerce and politics.
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Arts & Literature 147

Authors, Editors and Directors Index 159

Woodstock scholarship does not stand alone as field of study, but

The importance of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair cannot be

rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the event mattered to others

1 A recording of the performance is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

to being realized? If the festival had continued indefinitely, would a

industry, performers, and subsequent music festivals. Often included

The festival was, and continues to be, experienced by both attendees

Explores the sociology of crime. Describes the systems theory of “self-

2. Bennett, Andy, ed. Remembering Woodstock. Aldershot, U.K.:

Focuses on individuals who helped shape or were shaped by the political

Explores baby boomers and the idealism of their generation as manifested

5. Curry, Jack. Woodstock: The Summer of our Lives. New York:

Provides a qualitative look at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in

6. Denisoff, R. Serge. Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisited.

Touches on the politicization of rock music and the demise of rock

Articulates pithily a significant impact of the Woodstock Music and Art

Provides insight on rock music as a commodity. Discusses the full history

9. Ennis, Philip H. The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll

Demonstrates the connection between small group cultural and large-

11. Gair, Christopher. The American Counterculture. Edinburgh,

Investigates the relationship between the counterculture and American

of countercultural identity in the late 1960s, and the selection of

Provides a history on the concept and manifestation of countercultures.

Invokes the Woodstock Music and Art Fair as an example of counterculture

14. Hamelman, Steven L. But is it Garbage?: On Rock and Trash. Athens,

Claims “American culture is trash culture.” Observes trash, both

Asserts rock music culture no longer exists as a socio-political entity.

16. Henderson, Simon. Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the

Explores the ways in which African-American athletes utilized college

17. Hoffman, Abbie. Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album. New York:

Provides a first-person account from one of the vanguard leaders of the

18. Issitt, Micah L. Hippies: A Guide to an American Subculture. Santa

Attempts to provide an informed view of a hippie, beyond the general

Argues music, a fundamentally sonic phenomenon, has a relationship to

boomers. Woodstock is characterized as being the cumulating event of

22. Klein, Naomi. No Logo. New York: Picador, 2002.

Articulates the cultural and economic conditions that create oppositional

23. Mercer, Kobena. Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black

24. Miles, Barry. Hippie. New York: Sterling, 2004.

Presents an illustrated and exhaustive commentary on the counterculture

27. Pettman, Dominic. After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion.

Ponders the Dionysian cult of the 1960s as manifested in the sexual

29. Pratt, Ray. Rhythm and Resistance: Explorations of Political Uses of

Chronicles the business machinations leading up to the Woodstock

Represents a counterculture political manifesto, somewhat. Makes a

32. Ruiz, Teofilo F. The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life

Contemplates the “human response to the terror of history” and how

Serves as a middle-school textbook and is included here mostly as

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