Description: From Booklist The Beach Boys have come to be considered "America's band," but rock journalist White shows that that appellation is rather an affront to the nation. For the band, originally made up of the three Wilson brothers and a cousin, is nearly the ultimate in dysfunctional families. Its members' troubled personal relationships add poignancy to the story of how leader Brian Wilson turned his idyllic childhood of cars, surf, girls, and sports into fodder for a string of hits celebrating a romantic conception of California. Drawing on his long acquaintance with the Beach Boys and interviews with three generations of the Wilson family, White makes his band chronicle also function as a social history of modern California as he tells how the brothers' grandfather was lured from Kansas by Sunkist advertising and as he interpolates vivid descriptions of California culture into the account of the group's long passage from teen-idol status to played-out oldies vendor. There are already several Beach Boys books, but White's is the best researched and the most insightful on the music and its cultural significance.
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Book Title: Nearest Faraway Place : Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Composers & Musicians, Customs & Traditions, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 194 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Timothy White
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
