Young Men with Unlimited Capital
A Nonfiction, Music book. This might be the singularly most important book I've ever read on a specific event in the 20th century....
It started with this ad, placed by Joel Rosenman and John Roberts as a way to find interesting work after college. It led Rosenman and Roberts to stage a gathering that changed the face of popular culture: the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. Woodstock is rightly remembered as the pivotal event that united a generation, but the behind-the-scenes story is less utopian--and absolutely fascinating. Rosenman and Roberts describe their shock as they realized, after a long struggle to find a site and placate area residents, that the festival was attracting a crowd ten times larger than expected, stalling traffic for miles around, and forcing thousands of ticket holders to be turned away. The instant city of Woodstock created mind-boggling logistical problems for Rosenman and Roberts: mud, shortages of food, water, and medical help, a death, births, bad...
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- Pages: 202 pages
- ISBN: 9780553347296 / 553347292
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This might be the singularly most important book I've ever read on a specific event in the 20th century. Understanding Woodstock as an event that took money, borrowed from banks on lines of credit funded by liens on trust funds, does so much positive work to destabilize the post-Woodstock narrative that focuses on abstract, baby-boomer... I actually read the book that was written in 1979 so I'm not sure if this is the same, I'll have to track down a copy and see. Anyway........I read this first, then Michael Lang's new book. The vibe I get makes John and Joel's version of the facts a little more believable. Michael Lang looks posed in most of his photo's, his version...
