Woodstock Festival Research Paper

BACKGROUND

One of the largest counterculture events ever to explode on the American scene, Woodstock Festival opened in August 1969 on a farm in upstate New York, and an estimated 500,000 people flooded in for a weekend that would go down in history.

BROWSE FOR BOOKS ON THE SHELF USING THESE CALL NUMBERS

784–484.54

Biography section under Hendrix, Jimi (and under other individuals and performing groups who appeared at Woodstock)

LOOK UNDER THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS IN THE CATALOG (CARD OR COMPUTER)

Woodstock Festival (1969: Bethel, New York)

Rock music—History & criticism

REFERENCE MATERIALS THAT MAY HELP (BOOKS OR CD-ROMS)

Wenner, Jann S., ed. 20 Years of Rolling Stone, 1987.

General encyclopedias

PERIODICAL INDEXES TO SEARCH (BOOKS OR CD-ROMS)

EBSCO Magazine Article Summaries

InfoTrac

NewsBank and other newspaper indexes

Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature

SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series)

WILSONDISC

ONLINE DATABASES TO SEARCH

America Online

CompuServe

Dialog

Internet

Prodigy

KEY WORDS AND DESCRIPTORS FOR PERIODICAL INDEX AND ONLINE SEARCHES

Woodstock

Woodstock Festival
Rock music—history & criticism

Nineteen-sixties decade—music

VIDEOTAPES ON THIS TOPIC

Woodstock. Festival Films, 1970.

Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. Warner Home Video, 1970.

FICTION BOOK RELATING TO TOPIC

Strasser, Todd. Rock ’n’ Roll Nights, 1982.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTACT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Rhythm & Blues Rock & Roll Society, P.O. Box 1949, New Haven, CT 06510.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, 1 Key Plaza, Cleveland, OH 44115.

SUGGESTIONS FOR NARROWING THIS TOPIC

Discuss the impact of the Woodstock Generation on American culture.

Discuss the music of Woodstock.

Report on a specific performer or group; e.g., Janis Joplin; Arlo Guthrie; Joe Cocker; Joan Baez; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Creedence Clear-water Revival.

Record the personal recollections of a Woodstock participant.

Report on Yasgur’s Farm: before and after.

SUGGESTIONS FOR RELATED TOPICS

Life and career of a performing artist or group from the 1960s

Hippie culture

Woodstock II

Haight Ashbury, San Francisco

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