{"id":798296,"date":"2019-08-06T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868313"},"modified":"2019-08-06T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:57:04","slug":"lucy-dacus-on-woodstock-it-cannot-be-recreated-but-it-can-be-re-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/lucy-dacus-on-woodstock-it-cannot-be-recreated-but-it-can-be-re-examined\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Dacus on Woodstock: \u2018It Cannot be Recreated, But it Can be Re-Examined\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lucy Dacus<\/a> has penned an Op-Ed for the New York Times<\/em><\/a> that explores Woodstock<\/a>\u2019s meaning through the lens of its 1969 incarnation and in light of its 50th anniversary<\/a> and recently canceled<\/a> 2019 event.<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cWoodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation,\u201d the artist\u2019s essay scrutinizes how the fest is historically viewed and what it means for the generations that followed. Opening with her recalling her first time visiting Woodstock, she reflected on how the \u201cpeace and love\u201d spirit touted as part of the 1969 festival was conveyed to her generation \u201cfrom television characters and veiled anecdotes from our parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing born in the \u201990s means that Woodstock was a part of my life only as a cultural touchstone, a symbol of something I can never claim,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to decipher whether its aftershocks are coming from the source, or if my impressions of the event are products of distortion through the retelling and reselling of its history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dacus goes on to point out that she appreciates the countercultural of the era. \u201cPeace meant something very specific in the U.S. in August 1969,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut the call for peace rings hollow today when the past and the future so miss the mark.\u201d<\/p>\n

She cites that violent events occurred at both the original festival as well as the 1999 incarnation and that the site itself was \u201clikely the domain of the indigenous Lenape tribe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dacus, who was booked to perform<\/a> at the now-defunct Woodstock 50 with Boygenius, said she \u201cwas honored that my band was asked to play the 50th anniversary event and I\u2019m sad that isn\u2019t happening.\u201d However, she called the landmark anniversary a \u201ccall to action\u201d to examine its past and \u201cexcavate more of the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of Woodstock rests with the people who never knew it firsthand,\u201d she concluded. \u201cIt cannot be recreated, but it can be re-examined.\u201d Read Dacas\u2019 full Op-Ed<\/a> in the Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Dacus has penned an Op-Ed for the New York Times that explores Woodstock\u2019s meaning through the lens of its 1969 incarnation and in light of its 50th anniversary and recently canceled 2019 event. Titled \u201cWoodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation,\u201d the artist\u2019s essay scrutinizes how the fest is historically viewed and what it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 21:52:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}