The Watts Music Festival

In the 1960s, Rock ‘n’ Roll was replaced in popularity by other branches of rock such as Acid Rock, Psychedelic Rock and Hard Rock as a hippie counter culture arose, mainly to protest against the Vietnam war. These new forms of rock provided social commentary on the wide range of assassinations and anti-civil rights actions that infested the country, and united those that wanted to end them. They too celebrated anti-authority actions, but now they were used to promote peace and drugs. Americans—mainly college students—were still rebelling against societal constraints, but instead of fighting against the conformity of white suburbia and their parents, they were uniting to fight against U.S. governmental authority. Rock in the 1960s still mainly appealed to the younger generations, but its influence was spreading. Folk Rock (Bob Dylan) was playing in protest, reminding the individuals there that they were fighting for peace, and Psychedelic Rock—which replicated or enhanced the mind altering experience of psychedelic drugs—created a soothing and new atmosphere in the U.S. Music festivals such as Woodstock in 1969 sprung up to promote peace, do drugs, listen to music, and enjoy being alive and young.6 However, this element of extreme partying and pleasure, eventually brought a few stars to early deaths, such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. In the

The cultural process of Woodstock consisted of rejoicing in the different styles of music and in each individual that came. The festival included many social dramas. Individuals, in that number, are bound to have differences. Woodstock taught people, approximately 400,000, how to resolve their issues by sharing a common goal. The celebration helped to advance the ideas of peace and unity throughout the generation.

In the summer of 1969, a music festival known as “Woodstock” took place for three straight days in Upstate, New York with thirty-two musical acts playing, and over 400,000 people from around the world coming to join this musical and peaceful movement. Woodstock started out being a small concert, created to promote peace in the world. Now, Woodstock is still being celebrated over 40 years later. This three day music festival represented the perfect concert for the “baby boomers” during a messy political time. Woodstock significantly impacted the counterculture era of the 1960’s in a number of ways; how it began, the ideas of the concert, the sense of union and love it represented and it

Woodstock has come to mean more than just “three days of fun and music”; it

Every memory of the summer of 1969 is connected to, in one way or another, the historical event, Woodstock. The festival could not have left more of an impact on the “hippie” generation anymore than it did those three days of music and peace. The generation of the time wanted nothing more than what they got out of Woodstock. Today, people still look back on the festival and think of how well it made history without the expectance of doing so. Woodstock, one of the most important cultural events of the 20th century, combined iconic musical acts with interesting social behavior.

A three day concert that rolled into a fourth day, involved a lot of drugs, music, and mud. It soon became a symbol of what is known as “Woodstock Nation”, which is the term used to describe young people who distrusted authority and standard American values. In the sixties the word “hippie” had a negative connotation to it, making this festival more frowned upon than anything. This festival was also considered a reaction to conservative attitudes of post World War I.

This paper will discuss the culture of Appalachia reflected in the Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountains Boys videotape performance. By watching the video, one witnesses the unique yet orthodox Appalachian tradition that puts God and family first. Many Appalachians share this value system, while also staying true to their ancestral heritage (Appalachian, n.d.). By analyzing the festival atmosphere, musician, and music one can attain a better understanding of the Appalachian way of life.

On December 6, 1969 the Rolling Stones organized Altamont Music Festival at the Altamont Speedway near the northern California. The event is famous for it incredible violence, including the Meredith Hunter’s death and three accidental deaths The concert was presented by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final performance. Unfortunately, appearance by The Grateful Dead were canceled at the last minute due to the increasing violence at the place. This festival had been scheduled at the Golden Gate Park, but San Francisco officials disprove their permission at the last minute when Mick Jagger announced that the Stones would be there without

The Woodstock Festival became very important for this reason. The festival was the most well documented of all the large festivals in the sixties and had the most direct protesting.

The 1960’s was one of the most controversial decades in American history because of not only the Vietnam War, but there was an outbreak of protests involving civil and social conditions all across college campuses. These protests have been taken to the extent where people either have died or have been seriously injured. However, during the 1960’s, America saw a popular form of art known as protest music, which responded to the social turmoil of that era, from the civil rights movement to the war in Vietnam. A veritable pantheon of musicians, such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan sang their songs to encourage union organizers to protest the inequities of their time, creating a diverse variety of popular

Attention Getter: When we think of the beginning of music festivals it takes us back to 1969, when 400,000 hippies gathered at a 600-acre dairy farm from all around the country to watch the iconic Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and more perform.

These concert goers enjoyed no rules, drug use, sex, and loud rock music. Some of the best known artists from this concert were; Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Sly & the Family Stone, and Jefferson Airplane.

Gimme Shelter is a categorical documentary that depicts the Rolling Stones and their free concert at Altamont Speedway in 1969. With the documentaries direct cinema approach, the camera becomes an observational tool, such as a fly on the wall, so it can focus on capturing the reality and full representation of an event and its characters. In this case, it captures the tragedy and chaos that shaped itself as one of the most disastrous and violent concerts of all time. Categorical documentary films, focus on conveying diverse information in an organized way about a particular subject matter.

The Woodstock festival descended on Bethel, New York promising three days of peace and music. Event organizers anticipated 15,000 people would attend but were overwhelmed by the 300,000 people that flooded this rural area of New York state from August 15 -17, 1969. While these facts are well known and indisputable, the festival itself has proven to be a controversial endeavor. What began as a small business venture was soon brimming with the controversy of an entire decade. It becomes clear when examining the strikingly different accounts of the festival that reactions varied depending on the fundamental values and personal circumstances specific to each observer and to the

I can still see, hear and feel the two Earth, Wind and Fire concert in Philly—in the 1970s. I have Playlist on my iPod with the 25-Very Best EWF. In Earth, Wind and Fire’s Golden Years (in the late 1960s to the early 1980s) they were a Black Musical Band transcend from an R&B to UpliftingSpiritualAfricanCultural Sounds. In EWF’s Golden Years they were Great Musical Players of Instruments, Excellent Singers, Writers of Beautiful-Positive-Uplifting Lyrics, Awesome Arranger of Music and Bad-Assssss Concert Performers. Many of the current young Black musicians think they are great—they are not qualified to carry the instruments or lip sync their songs. I Blessed to see them LIVE--In Living Color, with their magnificent multi-color artistic