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Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections

Interviews and Recollections
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Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections explores the iconic 1969 music festival through a collection of personal interviews and stories. It offers insights from artists, organisers, and attendees, providing a vivid picture of the event's atmosphere and cultural impact, capturing the spirit of a defining moment in music history.
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This book may appeal to you if you are passionate about the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and enjoy first-hand accounts of iconic historical events. It offers interviews and insights from those who experienced the legendary music festival, providing a nostalgic dive into the sounds, spirit, and stories of Woodstock.

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Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award-winning documentary Woodstock.

  • Featuring interviews with legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe McDonald, Mike Shrieve, drummer for Santana, and many, many more
  • This collection of interviews digs deep into the making of the documentary Woodstock that came out in 1970s and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards
  • Marketing and promotion will coincide with the 50th anniversary of Woodstock
  • Events and screenings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York
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    Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorsese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award-winning documentary Woodstock.

    Assembled by associate producer Dale Bell, the oral history takes readers behind the scenes—and behind the camera—at the decade-defining event.

    Book Details

    INFORMATION

    ISBN: 9781644280409

    Publisher: Rare Bird Books

    Format: Paperback / softback

    Date Published: 30 September 2021

    Country: United States

    Imprint: Rare Bird Books

    Illustration: Illustrations

    Contributors:

    • Edited by Dale Bell
    • Contributions by Thelma Schoonmaker
    • Contributions by Country Joe McDonald
    • Contributions by Arlo Guthrie

    Audience: General / adult

    DIMENSIONS

    Width: 152.0mm

    Height: 228.0mm

    Weight: 250g

    Pages: 384

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    Arts & Culture Music & Musicians Non-Fiction Photography Books

    About the Author

    Dale Bell, 78, has spent his professional life in the arts, television and film. His awards include the Academy Award (Woodstock), the Peabody Award (Kennedy Center Tonight), two Emmys, four BAFTAs, and two Christophers. His work-performance, dramatic, documentary, commercials and industrials-has been seen globally, primarily on public television and NBC, ABC, A&E, Discovery, History, The Learning Channel, TBS, and others. In 1999, he joined Harry Wiland to create the Media & Policy Center, where together, they have earned the Ashoka and the Purpose Prize Fellowships while producing social justice multi-media initiatives for PBS on such topics as health care, eldercare, sustainable pioneers, healthy schools and communities, and now, Opioids, the VW scandal, and Our Kids with Professor Robert Putnam. They have also been professors of a two-year graduate course at Woodbury University in Burbank that focuses on leveraging media for greater social justice.

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