Pray For Surf is honored to present an excerpt from "Good Vibrations: - Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective"
Edited by Philip Lambert, author of "Inside the Music of Brian Wilson" and Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center City, University of New York
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https://prayforsurfblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/exclusive-excerpt-from-good-vibrations.htmlBook Contents
Part I: Musical Commentaries
1. “Brian Comes Alive”: Celebrity, Performance, and the Limitations of Biography in Lyric Reading 3
kirk curnutt
2. Pet Sound Effects 31
daniel harrison
3. Brian Wilson’s Harmonic Language 63
philip lambert
Part II: Historical Inquiries
4. Summer of ’64 105
keir keightley
5. When I Grow Up: The Beach Boys’ Early Music 137
jadey o’regan
6. Into the Mystic? The Undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964–1967 168
dale carter
7. Good Reverberations 189
philip lambert
Part III: Smile
8. Fandom and Ontology in Smile 215
andrew flory
9. A Listener’s Smile 242
larry starr