Taking stock of Woodstock

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Fifty summers after Woodstock. First, Kurt Andersen talks with Sha Na Na co-founders Robert Leonard and George Leonard about the utter incongruity of a ’50s throwback band taking the stage at the festival. The Jimi Hendrix version of the national anthem on the last day of the festival that embodies the chaos and distortion of the time. How the Sly and the Family Stone album "Stand!" dropped at a moment of intense cultural and political change, and provided a soundtrack for that fight. And the surprising power of the other Woodstock — the “Peanuts” character named after the festival.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:05.7	Today on Studio 360,
0:07.6	it's the 50th anniversary of Woodstock,
0:13.8	so we'll consider the quintessential Woodstock act,
0:17.8	Jimmy Hendrix,
0:26.1	as well as the totally, crazily, uncountercultural act that somehow made it to Woodstock, too.
0:32.1	Well, as somebody put it once, Shanana showed us where we had come from, and Jimmy showed us where we were going.
0:41.6	One of Shanana's founders.
0:47.4	This week on Studio 360, we are Stardust.
0:56.8	We are golden.
0:58.1	We feel old right after this.
1:04.0	This is Studio 360.
1:09.8	I'm Cornetanis.
1:10.6	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Annes. And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:12.8	This first level of gardens.
1:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.0	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:17.7	Very well done.
1:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:25.7	Studio 360.
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