Smile

by Sanchez, Luis A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Smile / Luis Sanchez.

Summary

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration and mobility with images of youth. Led by dream master Brian Wilson, their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos and compelled an audience across the nation and beyond to live out their own versions of the fantasy. By 1966, the encroaching counterculture added new dimensions of creative possibility to popular music. Looking to revise and expand, Brian Wilson sought collaboration with a brilliant musician named Van Dyke Parks. Together they began work on Smile, an ambitious album of music that refracted The Beach Boys' naïvet.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 130 pages ; : 17 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781623562588, 1623562589
oclc:ocn857938881
LC Classification:ML421.B38
Dewey Decimal:782.42166092/2

Introduction. What this book is about -- California unbound -- The pop miseducation of Brian Wilson -- To catch a wave -- Smile, Brian loves you.

Subjects

Beach Boys Criticism, interpretation, etc MUSIC -- History & Criticism MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock Rock (Musique) -- Histoire et critique.… Rock music Rock music -- History and criticism. --… Smile (Beach Boys) The Beach Boys United States