If it weren't for Woodstock, rock and roll wouldn't be where it is today. Woodstock became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture and a milestone in the history of rock music.

The original plan for Woodstock had been to build a recording studio in the town of Woodstock (Sandow, 1). Woodstock had become a rock center when musician Bob Dylan and a rock group called The Band settled there. To promote the idea of the studio the four partners of the music festival (Michael Lang; Artie Kornfield; John Roberts; and Joel Rosenman) decided to stage a concert, which they officially called the Woodstock Festival and Art Fair. The Monterey Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in 1967 inspired the Woodstock festival (Sandow, 1). The Woodstock partners eventually rented a field from a p

California came to listen to the 24 rock groups ("Age, 1"). Thousands more people

The dictionary defines a hippie as one who doesn't conform to society's standards and advocates a liberal attitude and lifestyle. Most of the people at Woodstock were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle class homes ("The Big Woodstock, 33"). But at Woodstock they exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to open and casual sex, and also illicit drugs. Youthful imaginations were captured, most obviously, by the hippie sound: driving, deafening hard beat of rock, music that is not just a particular form of pop but the anthem of revolution. A hippie's goal is to accomplish peace, love and freedom in society. To be a hippie you must believe in peace as the way to resolve differences among people, ideologies and religions ("The Way of, 3"). Most hippies believe that the way to peace is through love and tolerance. Loving means accepting others as they are, giving them freedom to express themselves and not judging their behaviors according to a narrow definition. This is the core of the hippie philosophy. Freedom is the leading quality in this system. Freedom to do as one pleases, go where the flow takes you, and being open to new experiences. This causes an attitude that allows for maximum personal growth. Sure this lifestyle is risky, but that's life and avoiding risk leaves one unprepared for the unexpected.

What started off as a promotion for a music studio, ended up as one of the most

Early in the week before the festival, it became clear that the event was going to

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