Why the Beach Boys matter [electronic resource] / Tom Smucker.

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Music matters.
Main Author: Smucker, Tom, 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Music matters.
Subjects:
Beach Boys.
Rock musicians > United States > Biography.
Rock music > History and criticism.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Harmony and discord
  • Cars and guitars
  • Suburbs and surf
  • Studio and stage
  • Fathers, shrinks, and gurus
  • Girlfriends, wives and mothers
  • When did the early sixties end?
  • Jan and Dean
  • Innocence and the second-best pop album ever
  • Hip and white
  • The best unreleased pop album ever
  • The Beatles
  • Into the genres
  • Dennis - Carl
  • Al, Bruce, and David
  • Mike
  • Brian Solo
  • Storytellers, historians, and fans
  • Summer's gone, the endless summer
  • Epilogue: suggestions.