Conclusion
One didn’t simply go to Woodstock: one lived through it. In August 1969, the
Woodstock Festival was the largest counterculture event ever staged, attracting some
500,000 people and featuring many of the country’s top acts. Two decades later,
Woodstock has come to mean more than just “three days of fun and music”; it
symbolizes a time of community, exuberance, and intensity since lost. Woodstock
festival gave power to the youth, united people of all ages, races, and sexes, and defined
a generation, making it one of the most important musical events of all time.
In order to understand the impact and importance of the Woodstock Festival one
must first examine the society that preceded the 1960’s and set the stage so to speak for
the events of the Woodstock Festival. The end of World War II brought thousands of
young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new
home and new jobs. With energy never before experienced, American industry
expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during
the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs. Growth was everywhere. The
baby boom was underway. Part of the what happened in the 1950’s with increased
employment and income, families had more money to buy things. People could afford
single family dwellings and suburbia was born . In the 1950’s a big change happened in
public education
Woodstock Festival was the largest counterculture event ever staged, attracting some
500,000 people and featuring many of the country’s top acts. Two decades later,
Woodstock has come to mean more than just “three days of fun and music”; it
symbolizes a time of community, exuberance, and intensity since lost. Woodstock
festival gave power to the youth, united people of all ages, races, and sexes, and defined
a generation, making it one of the most important musical events of all time.
In order to understand the impact and importance of the Woodstock Festival one
must first examine the society that preceded the 1960’s and set the stage so to speak for
the events of the Woodstock Festival. The end of World War II brought thousands of
young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new
home and new jobs. With energy never before experienced, American industry
expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during
the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs. Growth was everywhere. The
baby boom was underway. Part of the what happened in the 1950’s with increased
employment and income, families had more money to buy things. People could afford
single family dwellings and suburbia was born . In the 1950’s a big change happened in
public education
Woodstock memorial
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this were the memorial stands today. the woodstock festival was a three day period that was all about peace, love and music. It was a time were everyone came together. this is the memorial that shows what great events happened at the woodstock festival. there are the famous name of the of the bands that played at woodstock like the famous jimi hendrix, janis joplin, The Who, Santana, crosby,stills,nash & young band , and many other big name bands. Besides the bands at woodstock there was a whole new generation of young people in the crowds of woodstock. There names are familiar like hippies, flower children, and aquarians.