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American Prankster 07: The Woodstock Unicorn
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Why do hippies eat granola and wear tie dye? Because of the Woodstock Peace and Music Festival in 1969, when Hugh Romney became a global symbol for Peace, Love and Rock’n’Roll! After Wavy and the Hog Farm commune are hired to work at the iconic music festival, American’s opinions of hippies shift, along with the ethos of festival-partying. Diving into Woodstock’s unicorn moments, this episode unfolds why Woodstock was a unicorn and how Wavy and the Hog Farm commune were instrumental in the event’s success as they helped transform America’s notions of hippies, establishing a conscious, humanitarian way to party imitated by today’s festivals worldwide PLUS how granola and tie dye became synonymous with hippies. With guests Lisa Law, Jahanarah Romney, Laura Foster Corbin, Erica Miller and Jean Nichols.Part of Pantheon Podcasts
Released:
May 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (14)
American Prankster 02: Baby Wavy the Bebop Boy: Episode 2 dives into Wavy’s childhood, youth and teen years with stories of his parents, brothers, childhood BFF & neighbor, Albert Einstein. Wavy tells us about his obsession with bebop, jazz, radio comedy and how they influenced his life. Plus, Wavy’s Army stint, where his earliest outside-the-box-behavior, thinking and public pranksterism emerged and he gets into his college years, when he encountered marijuana, Martha Graham, improvisation and started beatnik jazz & poetry shows on the East Coast. Ep 2: Baby Wavy the Bebop Boy, includes Dr. Larry Brilliant & historian, Dennis McNally. Part of Pantheon Podcasts. by American Prankster