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The 15 pages that link to Woodstock, each with the reason it gives.

• Rock musicBroader topic: Its scale and mythology linked rock performance with youth politics and communal identity.

• Counterculture of the 1960sBroader topic: Its scale and imagery came to represent the counterculture’s musical community.

• Ravi ShankarBroader topic: Shankar’s appearance reached a mass audience, though he criticized the festival’s drug culture.

• Concert filmBroader topic: Its festival footage made concert-film scale and countercultural spectacle visible to mass audiences.

• Joan BaezRelated: Baez performed at the festival while pregnant, bringing folk and protest music to its enormous audience.

• Altamont Free ConcertRelated: Its scale and idealized reputation helped inspire plans for another free rock gathering.

• Thelma SchoonmakerRelated: Schoonmaker worked as an assistant editor on this documentary early in her career.

• Janis JoplinRelated: Joplin performed at Woodstock during the peak of her fame.

• Monterey Pop FestivalRelated: Its organizers and later histories treated Monterey as a precedent for large rock festivals.

• Baby boomersBroader topic: The festival became an iconic event linked to the youth culture of many boomers.

• San Francisco SoundCompared with: Its mass-audience festival model differed from the San Francisco scene’s earlier club and dance-hall circuit.

• 1960sBroader topic: Its scale and imagery condensed popular memories of the decade’s youth culture.

• Alla RakhaBroader topic: Rakha performed with Ravi Shankar there, bringing tabla to a vast counterculture audience.

• HippieBroader topic: Its peaceful crowds and performances became an enduring image of hippie culture.

• Sly and the Family StoneRelated: The band’s performance there helped cement its reputation as a powerful live act.