Luis A. Sanchez
The Beach Boys' Smile (33 1/3)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781623562588
- author:
- Luis A. Sanchez
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions:
- 12 x 0.9 x 16.7 cm
- Genre:
- Music, Stage & Screen, Music, Styles
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Beach Boys' Smile The Beach Boys' Smile is a living work of art that embodies the expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop spirit of their music. In the early 1960s, the band rose from the suburbs of California to become a symbol of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration with images of youth. Their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos, compelling an audience across the nation to live out their own versions of the fantasy. As the counterculture movement added new dimensions to popular music, Brian Wilson sought collaboration with Van Dyke Parks to revise and expand their sound. The result was Smile, an ambitious album that refracted the band's naïveté into a visionary exploration of American consciousness. This book of evocative essays explores the musical journey that transformed The Beach Boys into America's pop luminaries, and ultimately why Smile represents a tumultuous turning point in the history of popular music.
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