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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smucker, Tom, 1946- author. Why the Beach Boys matter Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, [2018] (DLC) 2018018572 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Smucker |
ISBN: | 9781477318720 1477318720 9781512601671 1512601675 |
OCLC Number: | 1030379813 |
Description: | 176 pages ; 18 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | Music matters. |
Responsibility: | Tom Smucker. |
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"Smucker is a long-time fan of the Beach Boys, and his passionate defense of their importance is carefully thought out...Why The Beach Boys Matter packs a lot of content into a short volume. Smucker does an excellent job summarizing the Beach Boys' long career, examining their influences and their place in American pop culture." * Mark My Words * "It's a pretty tall order to tell the Beach Boys' oft-confusing, decades-long history in a 176-page, 5" x 7" book, but Tom Smucker does an admirable job in Why the Beach Boys Matter." * Comics Worth Reading * "Smucker's book on Why The Beach Boys Matter tells us exactly that, and quite evocatively." * Critics At Large * "Why the Beach Boys Matter provides an excellent introduction to the band that might have evolved, Smucker suggests, into the Beatles...We were ready to abandon the Beach Boys. Now, with Smucker's book, we can reconnect to them." * New York Journal of Books * Read more...

