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Smile / Luis Sanchez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanchez, Luis A.
- Series:
- 33 1/3.
- 33 1/3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beach Boys.
- Beach Boys. Smile.
- Rock music--United States--1961-1970--History and criticism.
- Rock music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration and mobility with images of youth. Led by dream master Brian Wilson, their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos and compelled an audience across the nation and beyond to live out their own versions of the fantasy. By 1966, the encroaching counterculture added new dimensions of creati
- Contents:
- FC; Praise for the series; Forthcoming in the series; Title; Copyright; Track Listing; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What This Book is About; California Unbound; The Pop Miseducation of Brian Wilson; To Catch a Wave; Smile, Brian Loves You; Bibliography; Selected Discography; Also available in the series
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781623567996
- 1623567998
- 9781501397417
- 1501397419
- 9781623569563
- 1623569567
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