1st Edition

Woodstock University

Edited By Oliver Lovesey Copyright 2023
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: The Idea of Woodstock

Oliver Lovesey

2. Scattered Brightness: A Performer’s View of Woodstock 1969

Rose Simpson

3. Woodstock: Reminiscences of a Psychoanalyst

Charles W. Dithrich

4. The Woodstock Sandal

Charles Cantalupo

5. Pop Art at Woodstock: Sha Na Na

Oliver Lovesey

6. The Festival for Peace: Some Ruminations on My Journey through Music

Thomas M. Kitts

7. Woodstock and the Live Sound Industry in the Late 1960s

Sergio Pisfil

8. The Beatles at Woodstock

Kenneth L. Campbell

9. From Woodstock to Glastonbury to the Isle of Wight: The Role of Festival Films in the Construction of the Countercultural Carnivalesque

Chris Anderton

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

Andy Bennett

Biography

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.