Video: 1969 Woodstock Rock Festival: The Landmark Event That Started the Sexual Revolution
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Woodstock Music and Arts Fair (Woodstock Music & Art Fair) has become one of the epoch-making events in the world of music. It marked a departure from rock and roll and the beginning of a new era of rock. Almost 47 years have passed since the festival, but that music still influences contemporary performers. Plus, glossy magazines never stop comparing the fashion trends of that time and the way of dressing today.
One of the most famous rock festivals Woodstock took place from 15 to 18 August 1969 at one of the farms in Bethel (New York, USA). The event was named Woodstock, since it was originally assumed that it would take place in a city with that name, but due to the large number of expected visitors, there was not enough space to accommodate them. Therefore, the festival was moved to another place, and the name remained the same.
It was assumed that no more than 100 thousand people would attend the festival, but, in the end, more than half a million people turned out to be like that. Due to such a crowd of people, many left their cars right on the highway and walked several kilometers to their destination. Plus, the downpour on Friday eroded roads and fields.
The festival was completely unsanitary, drugs were sold out in the open, after the holiday about 200 thousand illegitimate children were born. Yet Woodstock has been dubbed "the end of the hippie era and the beginning of the sexual revolution."
The hippie culture in the late 1960s embraced all strata of the population. This subculture was marked not only by the promotion of a free lifestyle, but also by new fashion trends. On 14 photos of high school students who succumbed to the hippy culture, they look pretty stylish.
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