Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections

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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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Format: Paperback / softback

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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

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Description

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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