Why the Beach Boys Matter

by Tom Smucker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477318720
• ISBN13: 9781477318720
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 6.9"