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Half a Million Strong

Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella. New American Canon

By (author) Gina Arnold
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press, Iowa, United States
Published: 30th Nov 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 20mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN-10: 1609386086
ISBN-13: 9781609386085
Barcode No: 9781609386085
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Synopsis
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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