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Music

Robert Johnson: The Sound and the Fury

“The tension of wanting to say more than the tradition can allow explodes the tradition.”

by Greil Marcus
Music

Woodstock: The 10th Largest City in the United States

“Stoned silly most of the time, more than half a million freaks from all over the country made the painful pilgrimage to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm to play in the mud.”

by Steve Lerner
From The Archives

Letters to the Editor: Woodstock Nation

"It was weird, and it was wild. It was freaky, and it was freedom. It was lunacy, and it was love. It was beautiful."

by The Voice Archives
Woodshlock Nation: The Myth! The Mud! The Marketing!

“What happens when the myth of a particular place is trademarked by a corporation? Can you trademark Detroit? What about Stonewall?”

by Stacey D’Erasmo
Books

Ken Kesey: One Who Wigged Out

"His buddies are LSD cultists, Hell's Angels, peace marchers, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac hangers-on, a bookshop owner, a helicopter pilot wounded in Vietnam, and people who prefer anonymity, like Mountain Girl"

by Norman Melnick
Music

Rock Death in the ’70s: A Sweepstakes

"Do not the dead deserve an accounting at least as irreproachable as the survivors receive with each week’s edition of Billboard?"

by Greil Marcus