Woodstock is described as a moment when the news media first recognized music and entertainment as a cultural and commercial force.

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all local, which are from the upstate area like Saugerties, Woodstock, Rhinebeck and just all Hudson Valley area artists.

他们都是当地的艺术家，来自索格蒂斯、伍德斯托克、莱茵贝克。都是来自哈德逊谷地的艺术家。

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This much is true: The organizers named the event after Woodstock,New York, a town known for the arts.

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In all,about thirty acts performed at Woodstock, ranging from Arlo Guthrie to Jimi Hendrix to Ravi Shankar.

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It's basically a parking lot." The Newseum, a museum of news in Washington,D.C., has an exhibit called "Woodstock at 40: The Rise of Music Journalism."

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How it got there is the subject of the book "Taking Woodstock" by Elliot Tiber.

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(RICHIE HAVENS - "FREEDOM") Much has been said about Woodstock, real or imagined.

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Still,the Woodstock experience added up to what Time magazine called "History's Biggest Happening."

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(CANNED HEAT - "GOING UP COUNTRY") And this was how the New York Times described Woodstock: "Bethel townspeople gazed in awe at the streams of hippies, but they murmured 'PEACE' to the visitors, offered free water and returned smiles.

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Havens was onstage for as long as he was because Woodstock producers were waiting for the other performers to arrive.

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For his part,Havens,now nearly 70, continues to express the Woodstock ethos with new songs like "The Key,"

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But Havens says that for those three muddy days at Woodstock, politics and activism took a back seat to peace, love and cheerfully dealing with the rain and mud.

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"And when I looked down and I saw all those colors, I said to myself 'If the newspapers get hold of this shot,we've won,'" Woodstock was billed as entertainment,not politics.

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As August 1969 fades farther into the past, the Woodstock Festival continues to enjoy a near-mythic status, both for those who were there and for the millions who wish they'd been there.

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which is featured on his new album Nobody Left to Crown,Meanwhile, in a role he seems to relish, Havens will continue to act as a benign, bearded ambassador for the Woodstock state of mind.

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But many of the tens of millions more who've been born since, and who know only the music, the legend and the media hype, are still inspired by the free-spirited and communitarian values that Woodstock has come to symbolize.

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