This article is about the attendees at the Woodstock Festival. For the book by Abbie Hoffman, see
Woodstock Nation (book).
The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969
Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The phrase was coined by
Yippie activist
Abbie Hoffman,[1] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival.[1][2]
More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the
baby boomer generation in the
United States who subscribed to the values of the American
counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The term is often interchangeable with
hippie.[3]