Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music Festival

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by cosmictraveler, Aug 9, 2009.

  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    The Museum at Bethel Woods is an immersive and captivating multi-media experience that combines film and interactive displays, text panels and artifacts to explore the unique experience of the Woodstock festival, its significance as a culminating event of a decade of radical cultural transformation, and the legacy of the Sixties and Woodstock today.


    http://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/museum.aspx

    Sing along now......

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc
     
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    I did not find that era of "cultural transformation" to neatly coincide with the decade 1960-1969. The sexual revolution, the drugs, the hippies, the civil rights and anti-war movements, the acid- and progressive-rock music, the motorcycles, the intellectualism, and all the rest of it... In my observation and experience, it was a roughly twelve-year period that began with the first Beatles hit song in 1963 and ended with the withdrawal of the United States from the Vietnamese civil war in 1975.

    Many memorable events of that era did indeed occur in 1969, notably Woodstock and the Manson murders, but that did not make 1969 the end of the era. In fact I don't regard those as the absolute highlights of the era. Nixon's trip to China was yet to come, as was his demise in the Watergate scandal. The China trip changed international politics forever, and Watergate changed U.S. politics forever.

    The pullout from Vietnam and the ending of the draft were colossal victories for the anti-war movement, which for many of the Boomer generation was THE defining movement of "The Sixties." For others it was the civil rights movement, which still had quite a few important battles to win in 1969: interracial marriage was still illegal in some states and many schools were still segregated. For some of us the era was all about the music; the progressive rock of the early 1970s was the cultural apex of the era, and we all knew it was over when the relentless thump-thump-thump of disco took over the airwaves--in the mid-70s. "The Sixties" also promised the final defeat of religion in America, and shit did that ever come crashing down when the Religious Redneck Retard Revival began--in the second half of the 1970s.

    Kris Krisofferson identified the inevitability of the era's end in the song that was its epitaph, "Me and Bobby McGee."
    The Sixties had to end because our women grew up. Men can choose never to grow up. We'd still be out there gettin' high, ridin' our motorcycles, sleepin' in crash pads and panhandlin' for grub, but women are forced into adulthood by their bodies.
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Not if you followed the Grateful Dead and its traveling band of hippies or went and lived on a commune somewhere or just kept taking acid or smoking pot but the best thing of all was to keep the spirit of what the hip generation was all about...peace , love and happiness !

    Listen...remember...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxvSU_w_t88

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