Woodstock 1969: Three Days Of Peace And Music
Tiffany Kelly
Instructor Delaney
College Writing II MW 12:00
1 April 2013
Woodstock
Woodstock of 1969 was also known as Three Days of Peace and Music. Woodstock was a three-day music festival held in Bethel, New York, on a 600-acre farm. The three-day outdoor music festival extended in both physical size and historical magnitude. An estimated half a million hippies gathered on the 600-acre dairy farm. Woodstock of 1969 showed peace, love and music with surprisingly no violence at all. Some of the performers were Santana, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly and The Family Stone, The Band, and Jimi Hendrix. What made Woodstock historically significant was not the concert, but the event itself. Organizers never anticipated such a huge turnout. …show more content…
They describe the festival as “One of the most celebrated music festivals in history” (Bethel). Just like Lang in his interview, Bethel Museum talks about the positives of Woodstock. In their article, they describe the performances as legendary and unforgettable, which is why it was the symbol for that entire generation. This article also describes Woodstock as both positive and negative. The article also discusses that, “Others found it nothing but a messy, dirty, disorganized debacle” (BETHEL). This is the one of the few articles found that talk about a negative aspect of the festival. The article is current and the writers have had time to reflect on the event. These writers did not experience the hippie era so they aren’t going to explain it the same way. This is why the article mainly discusses the cons of Woodstock because over the years people started to realize that it had some negative effects. Michael Sheehy, author of “Woodstock: How the Media Missed the Historic Angle of the Breaking Story” states in his article that, “Many Americans of older generations—as well as many journalist—did not immediately recognize the passage of that transcendental moment and its impact on young people” (Sheehy). This shows that not everyone saw the positive impact Woodstock had on …show more content…
The time period in which the history of Woodstock was told alters how it was told. As it was told closer to the hippie era, the 1960s to the early 1970s it focused mainly on the positive outcomes it had for the hippie counterculture. They did this because the Vietnam War was still going on and they wanted to promote peace and this gave them the perfect example of peace. The history of Woodstock told closer to today’s time focuses on the same things but also points out that it wasn’t perfect. Of course nothing is perfect, Woodstock was messy, disorganized and people started talking about the negative effects of all the drug use. A couple of the sources do point out some of the very few cons that happened at Woodstock.
Of course, all of the people who retold the history saw Woodstock as a symbol for the entire hippie generation. The hippies represented peace and love during the time of war. They were able to all get together and celebrate different artists. Hippies were the ones to mainly talk about Woodstock after it happened because it was seen as a symbol of their generation. Later on others explained Woodstock and brought out some of the few cons. Those sources challenge that interpretation because they don’t understand the positive impact Woodstock had on thousands of
Instructor Delaney
College Writing II MW 12:00
1 April 2013
Woodstock
Woodstock of 1969 was also known as Three Days of Peace and Music. Woodstock was a three-day music festival held in Bethel, New York, on a 600-acre farm. The three-day outdoor music festival extended in both physical size and historical magnitude. An estimated half a million hippies gathered on the 600-acre dairy farm. Woodstock of 1969 showed peace, love and music with surprisingly no violence at all. Some of the performers were Santana, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Sly and The Family Stone, The Band, and Jimi Hendrix. What made Woodstock historically significant was not the concert, but the event itself. Organizers never anticipated such a huge turnout. …show more content…
They describe the festival as “One of the most celebrated music festivals in history” (Bethel). Just like Lang in his interview, Bethel Museum talks about the positives of Woodstock. In their article, they describe the performances as legendary and unforgettable, which is why it was the symbol for that entire generation. This article also describes Woodstock as both positive and negative. The article also discusses that, “Others found it nothing but a messy, dirty, disorganized debacle” (BETHEL). This is the one of the few articles found that talk about a negative aspect of the festival. The article is current and the writers have had time to reflect on the event. These writers did not experience the hippie era so they aren’t going to explain it the same way. This is why the article mainly discusses the cons of Woodstock because over the years people started to realize that it had some negative effects. Michael Sheehy, author of “Woodstock: How the Media Missed the Historic Angle of the Breaking Story” states in his article that, “Many Americans of older generations—as well as many journalist—did not immediately recognize the passage of that transcendental moment and its impact on young people” (Sheehy). This shows that not everyone saw the positive impact Woodstock had on …show more content…
The time period in which the history of Woodstock was told alters how it was told. As it was told closer to the hippie era, the 1960s to the early 1970s it focused mainly on the positive outcomes it had for the hippie counterculture. They did this because the Vietnam War was still going on and they wanted to promote peace and this gave them the perfect example of peace. The history of Woodstock told closer to today’s time focuses on the same things but also points out that it wasn’t perfect. Of course nothing is perfect, Woodstock was messy, disorganized and people started talking about the negative effects of all the drug use. A couple of the sources do point out some of the very few cons that happened at Woodstock.
Of course, all of the people who retold the history saw Woodstock as a symbol for the entire hippie generation. The hippies represented peace and love during the time of war. They were able to all get together and celebrate different artists. Hippies were the ones to mainly talk about Woodstock after it happened because it was seen as a symbol of their generation. Later on others explained Woodstock and brought out some of the few cons. Those sources challenge that interpretation because they don’t understand the positive impact Woodstock had on thousands of