Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective / edited by Philip Lambert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lambert, Philip, 1958- editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Tracking pop

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, Brian, 1942---Criticism and interpretation.

Wilson, Brian.

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Summary:

Good Vibrations" brings together scholars with a variety of expertise,from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the contributions to popular culture and popular music of one themost successful and influential pop bands of the 20th century. Thebook covers the full fifty-year history of the Beach Boys' music, from essays on some of the group's best-known music-such as their hitsingle "Good Vibrations"-to their mythical unfinished masterpiece, Smile. Throughout, the book places special focus on the individual whose creative vision brought the whole enterprise to life, Brian Wilson,advancing our understanding of his gifts as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. The book joins a growing body of literature on the popular music of the1960s, in general, and on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in particular. But Good Vibrations extends the investigation further and deeper than it has gone before, not only offering new understanding and insights into individual songs and albums, but also providing close examination of compositional techniques and reflections on the group's place in American popular culture.

Contents:

"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt

Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison

Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert

Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly

When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan

Into the Mystic? : the undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964-1967 / Dale Carter

Good reverberations / Philip Lambert

Fandom and ontology in Smile / Andrew Flory

A listener's Smile / Larry Starr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.

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Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472122271

0472122274

OCLC:

960977355

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9275965

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access