24 July 2020, 05:30 am
IIC Webinar
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions

On 24th July 2020 at 4 pm

Music Appreciation Promotion
A Half-Century of Woodstock Festival
Illustrated lecture by Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta, journalist, author, educationist, documentary filmmaker and publisher

Moderator: Prithviswar Sen, amateur guitarist

What made a music festival held in a farm in upstate New York on 15th August 1969 unique? And why does it still resonate among many fifty years later? The answer lies in the manner in which it fused and mixed music and politics