Woodstock 2019: The Spirit of Woodstock in the Post-risk Era

Author(s)
Bennett, Andy
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2019
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What continues to connect the Woodstock generation and the post-risk generations are the threats – political, economic, environmental, epidemic – of an increasingly precarious world. In the wake of plans for a 50th anniversary Woodstock event being abandoned due to the failure of the organizers to secure a site, this article considers the impact of Woodstock’s legacy on contemporary music festivals and whether a 50th anniversary Woodstock event may have sparked a revived interest in the rock festival as a platform for engaging at an ideological level with major issues unfolding in the world during the early twenty-first century.What continues to connect the Woodstock generation and the post-risk generations are the threats – political, economic, environmental, epidemic – of an increasingly precarious world. In the wake of plans for a 50th anniversary Woodstock event being abandoned due to the failure of the organizers to secure a site, this article considers the impact of Woodstock’s legacy on contemporary music festivals and whether a 50th anniversary Woodstock event may have sparked a revived interest in the rock festival as a platform for engaging at an ideological level with major issues unfolding in the world during the early twenty-first century.
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Journal Title
Popular Music and Society
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This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
Subject
Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Cultural Studies
Sociology
Arts & Humanities
Music
Woodstock
counter-culture
cultural memory