Woodstock
The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent" (Britannica) due to the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "peace, love, and harmony" (Woodstock 69). This decade was identified as such as a result of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination, unforgettable fashion, new styles of music, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, Vietnam, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, peace marches, sexual freedom, drug experimentation, and Woodstock. All of these components caused a revolutionary change in the world of popular Music and society. The most famous of the Sixties rock festivals was Woodstock music and art fair. It was held on farm property in Bethel New York on August 15-17th 1969 (Woodstock 69). Three Days of peace and music would come to define a gene!ration. Festival organizers decided on the title Woodstock because it was where folksinger Bob Dylan and many other musicians lived in New York. It was an artists' retreat since the turn of the century. People came from all around, some for
All of us were committed to making this presentation the best it could be. Overall, though, I felt this was a great learning experience for me. The final quality is "is the event heightened". Each of us had great ideas for the performance. At first, we thought finding quotes from Woodstock would be hard, but then Shawna found a message board where people shared their experiences from the festival. The timing was right for many attendees, there were tons of kids on summer vacation looking for something to do, and they found it. The toughest part of our script was finding actual commentary from Woodstock. The second quality is "is it temporally bounded". Not only are there too many laws and local ordinances nowadays, but consider the times: a social consciousness united behind a common cause that filtered it's way into the arts, and a country divided over whether we should or shouldn't be in Vietnam. htm April 27, 2001Welcome to Woodstockhttp://www. The festival included many social dramas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Encyclopedia Britannica vol.
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