Long Time Coming: How a Decade of Disorder Made the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair Inevitable, asks and answers a simple question: Why did so many young people attend Woodstock? The author identifies and follows six social and political movements through the decade of the 1960s that motivated a half-million young people to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair during the weekend of August 15, 1969. Further, the author identifies how festival organizers made decisions (wise and unwise) and how events (fortunate and unfortunate) linked the festival to the six social and political movements and made attendance almost mandatory for the young and hip.
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