{"product_id":"9780879309794","title":"By the Time We Got to Woodstock","description":"A fast-paced  fun  and sometimes brutal look at America's most volatile and creative year in music ä 1969: a time of euphoria and devastation  freedom and assassination  revolution and retribution  moonwalks and sit-ins  love-ins and race riots  sex  drugs  and guns. Idyllic college campuses became killing fields and inner cities went up in flames as the drumbeat of popular music tried to drown out the drums of war.Þ1969 was birthed through the visions and violence of 1968. ÊBy the Time We Got to WoodstockÊ breathlessly documents a year that saw more music-as-manifesto and rock-as-revolution than ever before. At one mad outdoor party after another ä from Miami to Denver  and from Woodstock to Altamont ä cracks in the promised hippie utopia quickly turned to canyons. This was the year that saw the Beatles go supernova while Bob Dylan hightailed it to Nashville. From the Byrds  Joan Baez  Jimi Hendrix  the Airplane  and Janis Joplin to the Velvet Underground  the Mothers of Invention  Funkadelic  and the Fugs  1969 stands up as a decade-smashing anomaly in the annals of rock'n'roll captured gloriously in this blistering book.","brand":"Bruce Pollock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45930398941502,"sku":"9780879309794","price":733.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780879309794_ab1e15b8-b2f0-4a2f-900e-48b7adab56fb.jpg?v=1707346966","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780879309794","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}