The phenomenon of “Przystanek Woodstock”

Abstract

The article aims to show the social phenomenon of Woodstock Festival and learn the most important factors attracting so many people to this event. Przystanek Woodstock is the largest music festival in Europe organized in Poland since 1995. The initiator of this event is Jurek Owsiak. It is a musical and cultural event attracting a lot of public interest both in Poland and around the world. It is attended by people of all ages, from different social strata, who together for the duration of the festival are playing together to the rhythm of rock music. How own research showed the main reason for attracting every year more and more people at the Woodstock Festival is the climate prevailing there and the opportunity to meet other people with whom the festival participants maintain contact even after its completion.