A three-day combination underground music festival and protest against the expansion of the Narita International Airport [which was to force farmers from their land], held on some of the very land in question. The festival brought together an amalgam of people, such as farmers, street beatnik hippies, student radicals and underground outsider musicians.
In the beginning of the 70’s in Japan the so called New Rock was on the rise, new bands spang up like mushrooms, festivals were going on one after another and many of them were politically slanted. One of those was a concert in support of farmers whose lands were under the threat of seizure by guileful capitalists thinking of road construction there. The youth wing of Japanese communist party has done the best they could and organized a wideranging meeting with famous jazz, rock and folk musicians. Moreover, the schedule of the event was chosen so carefully to coincide with big Shinto holiday in mid-August that let the organizers to obtain additionally many traditional dance ensembles.
In the beginning of the 70’s in Japan the so called New Rock was on the rise, new bands spang up like mushrooms, festivals were going on one after another and many of them were politically slanted. One of those was a concert in support of farmers whose lands were under the threat of seizure by guileful capitalists thinking of road construction there. The youth wing of Japanese communist party has done the best they could and organized a wideranging meeting with famous jazz, rock and folk musicians. Moreover, the schedule of the event was chosen so carefully to coincide with big Shinto holiday in mid-August that let the organizers to obtain additionally many traditional dance ensembles.