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Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella
Contributor(s): Arnold, Gina (Author)

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ISBN: 1609386086     ISBN-13: 9781609386085
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Rock
- Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 781.640
LCCN: 2018014099
Series: New American Canon
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.80 lbs) 214 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2018
 
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From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that--far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves-- these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.

 
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