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The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro (also known as the Festival de Avándaro or simply Avándaro) was a historic Mexican rock concert held on September 11–12, 1971, on the shores of Lake Avándaro near the Avándaro Golf Club, in a hamlet called Tenantongo, near the town of Valle de Bravo in the central State of Mexico. The festival, organized by brothers Eduardo and Alfonso Lopez Negrete's company Promotora Go, Coca-Cola executive and sports impresario Justino Compean and Telesistema Mexicano producer Luis de Llano Macedo, took place at the height of La Onda and celebrated life, youth, ecology, music, peace and free love, has been compared to the American Woodstock festival for its psychedelic music, counterculture imagery and artwork, and open drug use. A milestone in the history of Mexican rock music, the festival was estimated to have drawn from 100,000 to 500,000 concertgoers. Originally to present 12 bands booked by music impresarios Waldo Tena and Armando Molina Solis' agency ''ArTe'', due to the massive number of attendees a total of 18 acts performed outdoors during the sometimes rainy weekend and the event was captured in film and audio by Telesistema Mexicano, Cablevision and Peliculas Candiani. Images of the festival were captured by photographers like Graciela Iturbide, Pedro Meyer and others. The 1971 Super 8 short film ''Avándaro''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Avandaro )〕 produced by Gutiérrez y Prieto of Cablevision and directed/edited by Alfredo Gurrola was the only film briefly exhibited at international film festivals and theaters between 1971 and 1973. An accompanying soundtrack with a selection of the live recording produced by Luis de Llano's company LUDELL/BAKITA Records and named ''Avandaro, por fin... 32 años después'' (Avandaro, at last...32 years later), was released until 2003. ==Before Avandaro: Massive events, student repression and ''La Onda''== By 1971 Mexico, ruled by the PRI, had organized two of the most important sporting events in the world: the 1970 FIFA World Cup and the 1968 Summer Olympics, gaining a fresh and modern image its government wanted to show to the outside world. At the same time, its government had violently repressed political youth movements known as the ''Tlatelolco massacre'' and the ''Halconazo'', which in turn gave way to the so-called Mexican Dirty War of the early 1970s. The Mexican hippies, called "jipitecas" by Catholic priest and scholar Enrique Marroquin, created a multidisciplinary movement called ''La Onda'' (The wave). In accordance to their hippie values, La Onda did not advocate a violent overthrow of the PRI, but it did advocate change. By 1969 the government had already banned the musical ''Hair'' after a unique performance of it in Acapulco, censuring the rock band ''Los Shakes'' (which included stars Pixie Hopkin,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394093/ )〕 Mayita Campos and Nono Zaldivar), investigating impresario Alfredo Elias Calles (grandson of late president Plutarco Elias Calles) and deporting foreign actors and producers like Michael Butler, Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Such actions were heavily covered by local and American media like The New York Times and Time. Writer Carlos Monsivais, who witnessed the event, wrote an extensive article about the incident in his book ''Dias de guardar''. Also in 1969, the band Pop Music Team had suffered censorship due to their hit "Tlatelolco" (which only had two weeks of radio airplay) and in February 1971 in Monterrey, a collective band called Sierra Madre, led by Teja Cunningham, and a state-of-the-art lights spectacle named "Music and light show" had faced repression after a failed attempt to hold a three-day concert, called ''Concierto Blanco'' (white concert) inside the State government palace in Monterrey's main square. The violent incidents after the White concert, which were extensively covered by the media, seriously damaged then Nuevo Leon governor Eduardo Elizondo's political career. News from Colombia (Festival de Ancon), Argentina (Festival Buenos Aires Rock), Chile (Festival de los Dominicos "Piedra Roja"), England (Isle of Wight) and films from American festivals like "Monterey Pop" and "Woodstock" fueled the desire for the jipitecas to host their own major counterculture event. The opportunity arrived in the spring of 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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