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Michael P. Roth and Sukey Garcetti have endowed this imprint to honor the memory of their parents, Julia and Harry Roth, whose deep love of music they wish to share with others.
Surfing about Music
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Music in America Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which was established by a major gift from Sukey and Gil Garcetti, Michael P. Roth, and the Roth Family Foundation.
Surfing about Music
Timothy J. Cooley
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cooley, Timothy J., 1962–
Surfing about music / Timothy J. Cooley.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-27663-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-520-27664-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-520-95721-3 (ebook)
1. Surf music—History and criticism. 2. Surfing—History. 3. Music—Social aspects. I. Title.
ML3534.C662 2014
781.5'94—dc232013027393
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Online Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Trouble in Paradise: The History and Reinvention of Surfing
2. “Surf Music” and the California Surfing Boom: New Surfing Gets a New Sound
3. Music in Surf Movies
4. Two Festivals and Three Genres of Music
5. The Pro Surfer Sings
6. The Soul Surfer Sings
7. Playing Together and Solitary Play: Why Surfers Need Music
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Filmography
Index
Figures
1. “Only a Surfer Knows the Feeling” ad featuring surfer-musician Donavon Frankenreiter
2. The liminal zone of surfing
3. “Drop-It-All Sessions” ad campaign by surfing brand Protest
4. Surfers in Lake Superior waiting for the right wave
5. Engraving from 1825 of a domestic scene in Hawaiʻi
6. Man holding a papa alaia surfboard at Waikīkī Beach, ca. 1890
7. E. J. Oshier and George “Peanuts” Larson, San Onofre, 1937
8. San Onofre music and hula session, 1939
9. “How to Ride a Surfboard,” by Harold Coffin
10. Duke Kahanamoku in King’s Book of Hawaiian Melodies
11. Barefoot Adventure film poster featuring Bud Shank, c. 1960
12. Signed handbill for The Endless Summer
13. Box cover for the video release of The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun
14. George Greenough riding a kneeboard while filming
15. Cover for Blue Crush DVD
16. Cover for Thicker Than Water soundtrack CD
17. The Pipelines on the main stage at the Surfer Joe Summer Festival, 2009
18a. Surfer Joe trademark
18b. Untitled (Murphy Surfin’ around the World), by Rick Griffin
19. Ex Presidenti, 2009: Gian Maria Vaglietti and Francesco Peloso
20a–b. Surfer Joe Summer Festival 2009 poster
21. Pollo Del Mar onstage at the Surfer Joe Summer Festival, 2009
