Like any other basic high schooler, I was at the football game this past Friday. The event began with the marching band playing the Star Spangled Banner, which reminded me of the Jimi Hendrix rendition we listened to during class. Although both performances performed the same song, Hendrix is seen as a unpatriotic protester at Woodstock while the football game is perceived as patriotic.
While we all were listening to the same song, our perspectives were different. Woodstock was packed with “skinny hippie women, smoking a few joints, dropping acid, laughing when the rain fell (Alexie, 31)” Hippies were galvanized by artists like Hendrix, whose performance was a protest against war. He took the literal meaning of “the rockets’ red glare and
While we all were listening to the same song, our perspectives were different. Woodstock was packed with “skinny hippie women, smoking a few joints, dropping acid, laughing when the rain fell (Alexie, 31)” Hippies were galvanized by artists like Hendrix, whose performance was a protest against war. He took the literal meaning of “the rockets’ red glare and