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Routledge Reading Smile: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Lost Album

Name: Reading Smile: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks' Lost Album
Brand: Routledge
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First conceived in 1966 but only completed in 2004, Brian Wilson Presents Smile has been called the best-known unreleased album in pop music history and an American Sergeant Pepper. Reading Smile offers a close analysis of the recording in its social, cultural and historical contexts, focusing on the finished work's subject matter as embodied in Van Dyke Parks' contentious yet little understood lyrics. These lyrics present low-resolution, highly allusive portrayals of western expansion's archetypes, from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts to Diamond Head, Hawaii. This Routledge Studies in Popular Music title explores the mythological and historical dimensions of one of rock music's most legendary projects, examining how Wilson and Parks' visionary collaboration shaped American identity through innovative studio production and evocative lyrical imagery that continues to influence popular music scholarship and criticism.

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Reading Smile provides detailed academic analysis of Brian Wilson Presents Smile's cultural and historical significance in rock music.

Van Dyke Parks' lyrics are examined for their allusive portrayals of American archetypes and western expansion from Plymouth Rock to Hawaii.

This Routledge Studies in Popular Music publication documents the decades between the album's 1966 conception and its 2004 completion.

The book explores how the finished work embodies themes of American identity through innovative studio recording and production techniques.

Scholarly examination of the recording's influence on popular music history and its status as an American Sergeant Pepper equivalent.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367622866
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Rock
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 June 2021
Listed Since: 10 December 2020

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