1.1.Introduction
We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden (Mitchell 1970)
These words are the chorus of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” song, that “named the generation” (Yaffe 2017: 3), meaning that it managed to capture the spirit of the whole event and what it stood for: Starry-eyed, idealistic young people gathered in the spirit of love and community to listen to music together. A symbol of the hippie generation, an organizational disaster, and a historical monument of humanity and kindness—that event contained all that, and more, in its boundaries. This essay attempts to reconcile these seemingly contradictory approaches by explaining how each one was true in its own right.
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