Alexander Culverwell -Woodstock
Woodstock was a concert that was designed for only one purpose. This purpose was to gain world peace. This went against the way of the times. America was going to war against Vietnam and it was the youth generation that was rebelling against the war and Woodstock was a result of this rebellion. Woodstock is viewed as a very important time in history. As Remembering the Dangers of Rock and Roll: Toward a Historical Narrative of the Rock Festival reading puts it, ‘The Woodstock music festival and its half a million attendees has traditionally been viewed as a portrait of Aquarius—a manifestation of cosmic consciousness more profound than the same year’s moon landing and even viewed by some as “the second coming of Christ.�’ It was amazing fact that 500 000 people were at the concert and there were many thousands more stuck on the freeway trying to get to the concert and the outcry for peace.
Woodstock was of a time those parents (older generation) and their children (youthful generation) had very different ideas. This was shown in many ways during the film and the readings. One girl is interviewed saying that her parents were against her going to Woodstock due to it being dangerous and against their beliefs; however; she went to support her views against the war and world peace. In the article, “Blame it on the Sixties�, Landon Y. Jones is quoted saying, “America’s largest generation was growing up in an age-segregated universe, cut off from outside society and … bound together by their own prolonged adolescence� (43). As Jones points out here, the younger generation struggled to communicate with the older generations and Woodstock was the best way to get their message of peace across.