Woodstock University

Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia, Canada)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Pageants, parades, festivals; Rock & Pop music; Popular culture

Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969’s iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it also considers the role of music in Woodstock’s legacy as the embodiment of 1960s countercultural idealism, escapism, and activism. A self-mythologizing event, as indicated by congratulatory stage announcements, Woodstock made a real-time claim for its own historic importance. Elevated by its remarkable (and in some cases doctored) audio, celluloid, and oral history afterlives, Woodstock would enhance the aura of rock star celebrity, and in the process expose the counterculture as a cash cow and weaponize the machinery of corporate rock.

The essays in this collection are the participant observations of performers and attendees of Woodstock and related festivals, and also the reflections of cultural historians on aspects of the festival, its representation, and its ambiguous legacy.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Popular Music and Society.

Edited by: Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032335261
ISBN 10: 1032335262
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Idea of Woodstock 2. Scattered Brightness: A Performer’s View of Woodstock 1969 3. Woodstock: Reminiscences of a Psychoanalyst 4. The Woodstock Sandal 5. Pop Art at Woodstock: Sha Na Na 6. The Festival for Peace: Some Ruminations on My Journey through Music 7. Woodstock and the Live Sound Industry in the Late 1960s 8. The Beatles at Woodstock 9. From Woodstock to Glastonbury to the Isle of Wight: The Role of Festival Films in the Construction of the Countercultural Carnivalesque 10. Woodstock 2019: The Spirit of Woodstock in the Post-risk Era

Oliver Lovesey is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada, and is the author of monographs on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and George Eliot. He edited Popular Music and the Postcolonial, and his most recent book is Popular Music Autobiography.