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Bloomsbury Popular Music is a unique source of scholarship and serious in-depth analysis of popular music in a global context. Read more about Bloomsbury Popular Music.

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COUNTRY FOCUS: Vietnam

Lou Reed, John Cale and The Velvet Underground

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Discover the story of when pop-rock met the avant-garde.

View of hand-painted signs to direct foot traffic at the Woodstock Festival

WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL

Beyond the mythology: was it the zenith or nadir of 60s counterculture?