Woodstock Nation

People involved in 1960s counterculture

The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The phrase was coined by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman,^[1] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival.^[1]^[2]

More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who subscribed to the values of the American counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The term is often interchangeable with hippie.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Raskin, Jonah (August 14, 2019). "Woodstock Nation Revisited: Abbie Hoffman, Joan Baez and the Culture Vultures of Capitalism". CounterPunch. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
^ Hoffman, Jack; Simon, Daniel (February 18, 2020). "The Book That Began as an Acid-Fueled Speech at Woodstock". LitHub. Retrieved October 5, 2023.
^ Carson, Tom (August 15, 2019). "Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie?". Archived from the original on September 29, 2022. Retrieved October 5, 2023.

External links

Woodstock Nation Foundation

Woodstock Festival

List of performances and events

Founders

Artie Kornfeld
Michael Lang
John P. Roberts
Joel Rosenman
Max Yasgur

Perfomers

August 15, 1969	Richie Havens Swami Satchidananda Sweetwater Bert Sommer Tim Hardin Ravi Shankar Melanie Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez
August 16, 1969	Quill Country Joe McDonald Santana John Sebastian Keef Hartley The Incredible String Band Canned Heat Mountain Grateful Dead
August 17, 1969	Creedence Clearwater Revival Janis Joplin Sly and the Family Stone The Who Jefferson Airplane Joe Cocker and The Grease Band Country Joe and the Fish Ten Years After The Band
August 18, 1969	Blood, Sweat & Tears Johnny and Edgar Winter Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Paul Butterfield Blues Band Sha Na Na Jimi Hendrix

Media

Woodstock Nation (1969 Abbie Hoffman book)
Woodstock (1970 film)
Making Woodstock (1974 book)
My Generation (2000 film)
The Road to Woodstock (2009 book)
Taking Woodstock (2007 book)
- 2009 film
Woodstock Revisited (2009 film)
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021 film)
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (2022 miniseries)

Songs

"Woodstock"
"Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"

Recordings

At the Woodstock Festival (1970)
Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970)
Woodstock Two (1971)
The Best of Woodstock (1994)
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music (1994)
Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix) (1994)
Woodstock Diary (1994)
Woodstock 94 (1994)
Live at Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix) (1999)
Woodstock 1999 (1999)
The Woodstock Experience (2009)
Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm (2009)
Live at Woodstock (Joe Cocker) (2009)
Woodstock 1994 (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (2016)
Woodstock 1994 (Green Day) (2019)
Woodstock – Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Collection (2019)
Woodstock – Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience (2019)
Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive (2019)
Live at Woodstock (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (2019)