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The Grand Story Of Beach Music

Robot A. Hull, Rock's Backpages, 5 August 2009

IT IS WITH much trepidation that I write of "beach music", a phenomenon that has consistently been making waves across America and the world (yes, Virginia, there are even "beach enthusiasts" in Muncie) since the early '60s. Over the past three decades, I have become increasingly fond of a questionable musical consciousness termed "beach music". Yet, I fear writing about it, not just because I still do not know what IT is, but because neither does anybody else.

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