Week of August 17, 2009

News Item: Forty years ago more than 300,000 people swarmed to a farm in Bethel, New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair which featured performers such as Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Joan Baez. Rain, mud, traffic jams, food shortages, psychedelic drugs, and marijuana were other festival highlights. Concert promoters had initially approached the towns of Woodstock and Wallkill to host the event, but suitable venues were not available. Instead, the event was held on a dairy farm belonging to Max Yasgur.

America in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s
By Klaus P. Fischer. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006
Call Number: E841 .F49 2006 (At Jupiter)

And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
By Joan Baez. Summit Books, 1987
Call Number: ML420 .B114 A3 1987

Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969
By Robert Stephen Spitz. Viking Press, 1979
Call Number: ML38 .W66 S6

For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman
By Jonah Raskin. University of California Press, 1996
Call Number: HN90 .R3 R37 1996 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

From Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture
By Douglas Brode. University of Texas Press, 2004
Call Number: PN1999. W27 B76 2004

Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s: An Oral History
By Jeff Kisseloff. University Press of Kentucky, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary (Also at Jupiter – E840.6 .K57 2007)

Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
By Jeff Tamarkin. Atria Books, 2003
Call Number: ML421 .J44 T36 2003

Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
By Nadya Zimmerman. University of Michigan Press, 2008
Call Number: F869 .S36 H357 2008

Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s
Edited by Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle. Routledge, 2002
Call Number: E839.4 .I46 2001

Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience
By Janie L. Hendrix & John McDermott. Atria Books, 2007
Call Number: ML410 .H476 H49 2007 (Also includes audio CD in Boca Raton Media Center)

Joan Baez: Mexican-American Folksinger (VHS)
Directed by Jerry Baber and Rhonda Fabian. Schlessinger Video Productions, 1995
Call Number: ML3930 .B205 J636 1995

Love, Janis
By Laura Joplin. Acid Test Productions, 1999
Call Number: ML420 .J77 J6 1999

Music of the Counterculture Era
By James E. Perone. Greenwood Press, 2004
Call Number: ML3918 .P67 P47 2004

Perspectives on the Grateful Dead: Critical Writings
Edited by Robert G. Weiner. Greenwood Press, 1999
Call Number: ML421 .G72 P47 1999 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar
Edited and Introduced by George Harrison. Welcome Rain Publishers, 1999
Call Number: ML419 .S49 A3 1999

Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
By Alice Echols. Henry Holt, 1999
Call Number: ML420 .J77 E25 1999

Shaky Ground: The ’60s and Its Aftershocks
By Alice Echols. Columbia University Press, 2002
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary (Also at Jupiter – E839.4 .E28 2002)

Steal This Book
By Abbie Hoffman. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996 (originally published in 1971)
Call Number: HX843.7 .H64 A3 1996 (Also at Jupiter)

Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America
By Larry Sloman. Doubleday, 1998
Call Number: HN90 .R3 S57 1998

“Takin’ It to the Streets”: A Sixties Reader
Edited by Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines. Oxford University Press, 1995
Call Number: E841 .T28 1995 (Also at Jupiter)

There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ’60s
By Peter Doggett. Canongate, 2007
Call Number: ML3534 .D64 2008

Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s
By Nick Bromell. University of Chicago Press, 2000
Call Number: HN59 .B76 2000

Turn! Turn! Turn!: The ’60s Folk-Rock Revolution
By Ritchie Unterberger. Backbeat Books, 2002
Call Number: ML3534 .U57 2002 (At Jupiter)

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (DVD)
Directed by Michael Wadleigh. Warner Home Video, 1997 (originally released in 1970)
Call Number: ML38 .W66 W663 1997 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Woodstock: Songs and Photos from the Film and Songs from the Woodstock Festival (Music Score)
Published by Warner Bros, 1970
Call Number: M1619 .S6 1970

Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album
By Abbie Hoffman. Vintage Books, 1969
Call Number: HN65 .H55 1969 (Jupiter)