Surf Music
During the 50's/60's era a number of surfing movies were put out by Hollywood, which helped introduce these genres to the public, and while having evolved and expaned since, the sound of surf music is always immediately recognizable and reminiscent of that era and the first groups and artists that popularized these genres. These include: The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the Surfaris, The Ventures.
Surf music
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Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture.
It has three main streams or subgenres:
* Instrumental dance music in which electric guitars with a distinctive sustained but undistorted sound predominate.
* Surf pop music, including both surf ballads and dance music that includes a vocal line.
* Surf rock, which overlaps both the other streams, sometimes even to the point of being used as a synonym for surf music generally.
Many notable surf bands have been equally noted for both surf instrumental and surf pop music, so surf music is generally considered as a single genre despite the variety of these styles.
Recordings in all three traditional subgenres are normally attributed to the bands that performed them, rather than to individual artists. A more recent development is the singer songwriter subgenre, which includes artists like Australian Beau Young, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, Matt Costa, and overlaps the others in style.
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