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The camera zooms in on the stage at CNE Stadium. We are in Toronto first stop for the Festival Express, a multi-band rock concert touring across Canada by train in the summer of 1970. A bearded man in a leather jacket and tie-dyed shirt approaches the microphone. Below him, the crowd surges toward the entrances, pushed back by mounted police. Inspired by Woodstock and other large rock gatherings of the previous year, they demand free entry. But the bearded man has another idea.
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© 2007 Michael J. Kramer
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Kramer, M.J. (2007). The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture. In: Butsch, R. (eds) Media and Public Spheres. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230206359_12
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