Notes

Notes on Psychedelic Festivals

Modern psychedelic festivals can be traced to the “Be-ins” and “Acid Tests” of San Francisco in the late 1960s, made famous by Tom Wolfe's 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. These festivals evolved into Woodstock, the Grateful Dead circuit, the Rainbow Family, Rave culture, Burning Man, the Boom Festival, the Love Parade, and other gatherings around the world dedicated to psychedelic music, art, and culture. Attendance at the largest of these annual festivals is regularly in the tens to hundreds of thousands of people.

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Notes and References

[1] Wolfe, Tom, 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. Bantam, 1999.