Musical Counterculture: Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock

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In August of 1969, around 500,000 people got together at a farm in New York with the sole purpose of listening to music. However, what followed was more than just a simple music concert as the three days became legendary. The event would define a whole generation and mark the end of one of the most unsettled times in recent history. The Woodstock music festival happened when the United States conflicted with civil rights, the Vietnam War, and sexual politics. The film Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation takes a look at the concert while focusing on all aspects, including the audience and how a city was created in the middle of farmland. It also focuses on the problems the people faced within the three days as some starved and tripped as it rained even though it turned out to be a legendary time as the people worked together, not minding if they had just met at the concert. Moreover, Jimi Hendrix’s performance of his song titled Star-Spangled Banner changed the view of the counter-culture movement.
The film focuses on the concert, and a few years before, as during the introduction, it elaborates the conflict that the country was experiencing at the time, including civil and women rights issues and the Vietnam War, which proved to be divisive. It also shows how the event organizers had a hard time trying to organize the concert. Initially, the concert was scheduled to happen in Wallkill, New York, but the people living in the area feared that their town would be overrun and trashed by hippies, so the organizers were not given a permit (Samels et al., 2019). As such, they spent several weeks surveying the state, and they finally landed on a farm in Bethel.
The film also shows how a security detail hired by the organizers ensured the concert was successful. The security team was led by an individual named “Wavy Gravy,” an...