Surf Beat (Rock 'n' Roll's Forgotten Revolution)

ÊSurf BeatÊ 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.ÞÞConventional wisdom posits 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 ÊSurf BeatÊ the genre finally gets its day in the sun. Surf music authority and author Kent Crowley uncovers the story of the initial emergence of surf music as first a local then a national and international phenomenon and its subsequent waves of popularity through the ensuing decades.

This book title, Surf Beat (Rock 'n' Roll's Forgotten Revolution), ISBN: 9781617130076, by Kent Crowley, published by Backbeat (June 1, 2011) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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