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The Beach Boys' Smile / Luis A. Sanchez.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781623569563
ISBN: 1623569567
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.