Surf Beat Rock 'n' Roll's Forgotten Revolution

Name: Surf Beat Rock 'n' Roll's Forgotten Revolution
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ISBN: 9781617130076

ISBN-10: 1617130079

ISBN-13: 9781617130076

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kent Crowley

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Surf Beat is the first book to tell the story of the birth of surf music, and its persistent survival and reinvention in the face of decades of dismissal as a mere cultural aberration. Conventional wisdom posits the notion that rock 'n' roll languished in the period between 1959 and 1963. Yet in that four-year stretch between Elvis joining the army and Buddy Holly's death, and the emergence of the Beatles, a musical revolution took place in Southern California that would influence all electric guitar forms that followed it. They called it surf music, and in Surf Beat, it finally gets its day in the sun. Surf music authority and author Kent Crowley uncovers the story of the initial emergence…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 6/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.45" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: The Day The Music Didnï¿½t Die


Glossary of Essential Terms


Prologue: The Surf Also Rises: Commencing the Last Wave



The South Swell 1957-1962



Secret Surfinï¿½ Spot



Rebel Rouser



Letï¿½s Go Trippinï¿½



Mr Moto



Stoked



The West Swell 1962-1964



Moment Of Truth



Miseriou



Dead Manï¿½s Curve



Penetration



The North Swell 1964-1972



A New Shade of Blue



Third Stone From The Sun



The Endless Summer



The Great Swell 1971-1999



Donï¿½t Let Your Goodbye Stand



Rumble At Waikiki



Surfers Rule



Big Wednesday 1999-2007


Epilogue


Endnotes


Recommended Listening


Sources


Index


Acknowledgements