The Pill and the Sexual Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_revolution.html
PBS provides a good overview of the sexual revolution that shaped the story's setting.
Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfBvp7Z-1Z8
Listen to the Bob Dylan song Joyce Carol Oates has credited with inspiring her short work. Particularly relevant is the song's final stanza:
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start a new
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
http://www.usfca.edu/jco/whereareyougoing/
This University of San Francisco site offers the text of the story as well as a comprehensive list of significant criticism and a video of Joyce Carol Oates explaining the work's dedication to Bob Dylan.
Schubert - Der Tod und das Madchen
http://artsongcentral.com/2007/schubert-der-tod-und-das-madchen/
Listen to Schubert's famous opera, Death and the Maiden, which serves as the story's original title and laid a pattern for the meeting between Arnold Friend and Connie.
Smooth Talk - Movie Reviews
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/smooth_talk/reviews/
Read reviews of Smooth Talk the film adaptation of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been."
