Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella by Arnold, Gina

Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of...
CHF 31.94
CHF 31.94
SKU: 9781609386085
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 0 left in stock
Author: Gina Arnold
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: CHF 31.94
10 customers are viewing this product
Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella by Arnold, Gina

Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

CHF 31.94

Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella

CHF 31.94
Author: Gina Arnold
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that--far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves-- these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.



Author: Gina Arnold
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 11/15/2018
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781609386085


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2018

About the Author

Gina Arnold is a former rock journalist and the author of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense, and Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana. She is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock. Arnold teaches rhetoric and media studies at the University of San Francisco.


Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Related Products

Recently Viewed Products