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Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective

Title: Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective / edited by Philip Lambert.
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

Lambert, Philip, 1958-

Description

x, 291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Good Vibrations" brings together scholars with a variety of expertise,from music to cultural studies to literature, to assess the full extent of the contributions to popular culture and popular music of one themost successful and influential pop bands of the 20th century. Thebook covers the full fifty-year history of the Beach Boys' music, from essays on some of the group's best-known music-such as their hitsingle "Good Vibrations"-to their mythical unfinished masterpiece, Smile. Throughout, the book places special focus on the individual whose creative vision brought the whole enterprise to life, Brian Wilson,advancing our understanding of his gifts as a songwriter, arranger, and producer. The book joins a growing body of literature on the popular music of the1960s, in general, and on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in particular. But Good Vibrations extends the investigation further and deeper than it has gone before, not only offering new understanding and insights into individual songs and albums, but also providing close examination of compositional techniques and reflections on the group's place in American popular culture.

Series Statement

Tracking pop

Uniform Title

Tracking pop.

Alternative Title

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.

Contents

"Brian comes alive" : celebrity, performance, and the limitations of biography in lyric reading / Kirk Curnutt -- Pet sound effects / Daniel Harrison -- Brian Wilson's harmonic language / Philip Lambert -- Summer of '64 / Keir Keightly -- When I grow up : the Beach Boys' early music / Jadey O'Regan -- Into the Mystic? : the undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964-1967 / Dale Carter -- Good reverberations / Philip Lambert -- Fandom and ontology in Smile / Andrew Flory -- A listener's Smile / Larry Starr.

Call Number

JNE 16-173

ISBN

9780472119950
0472119958
9780472122271 (canceled/invalid)
0472122274 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016017739

OCLC

948176054

Title

Good vibrations : Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in critical perspective / edited by Philip Lambert.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Tracking pop

Tracking pop.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.

Added Author

Lambert, Philip, 1958- editor.

Research Call Number

JNE 16-173

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