Why the Beach Boys matter / Tom Smucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smucker, Tom, author.

Series:

Music matters.

Music Matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beach Boys.

Rock musicians--United States--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages).

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.

Summary:

Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group can claim the Ronettes and the Four Seasons as early 1960s rivals; the Mamas and the Papas and Crosby, Stills and Nash as later 1960s rivals; and the Beatles and the Temptations as decade-spanning counterparts. This is the first book to take an honest look at the themes running through the Beach Boys’ art and career as a whole and to examine where they sit inside our culture and politics—and why they still grab our attention.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Harmony and Discord

2. Cars and Guitars

3. Suburbs and Surf

4. Studio and Stage

5. Fathers, Shrinks, and Gurus

6. Girlfriends, Wives, and Mothers

7. When Did the Early Sixties End?

8. Jan and Dean

9. Innocence and the Second- Best Pop Album Ever

10. Hip and White

11. The Best Unreleased Pop Album Ever

12. The Beatles

13. Into the Genres

14. Dennis

15. Carl

16. Al, Bruce, and David

17. Mike

18. Brian Solo

19. Storytellers, Historians, and Fans

20. Summer’s Gone, the Endless Summer

Epilogue: Suggestions

Acknowledgments

Notes

Discography

A Chronological Listing of DVDs Mentioned in the Book

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1876-3