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Pop Surf Culture Book - New Edition 2025

SurfAgeDaydream Joined: Jun 30, 2023 Posts: 17	Posted on Feb 12 2024 11:02 AM Apparently a new edition is coming out in spring 2025 published by Fantagraphics. They have an instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/pop_surf_culture Can't see any more other than that, but given that used copies of the first edition go for stupid amounts, I'm delighted! Top
TheHappyHodad Joined: May 15, 2019 Posts: 35 Vista, CA	Posted on Feb 12 2024 11:16 AM Stoked! Always wanted this book, time to snatch it up when re-released. I've always been a surfer first before becoming fascinated with surf music. Surfing in CA between the 30's to the 50's must had been something special. I wonder how much of the surf music in the 60's was adopted by the early surfers before Hollywood turned surfing mainstream. I've read a lot of the early surfers would had been listening to mostly jazz at the time, hence beatnik culture being referenced in this book. Top
SurfAgeDaydream Joined: Jun 30, 2023 Posts: 17	Posted on Feb 13 2024 04:55 AM Yeah, delighted to see this getting a reprint. Very interesting re what surfers were listening to and when. Suspect you're right re jazz. I read Chris Hillmen's biography last year (the Byrds etc) and he was a teenage surfer - and totally obsessed with bluegrass music at that time. So, I guess there was a fair amount of variation. That said, an awful lot of the first wavers seemed to be actual surfers and into guitar instrumentals and the ever-present Dick Dale. Fascinating stuff. Top
Staredge Joined: Sep 27, 2008 Posts: 1149 Damascus, Maryland	Posted on Feb 13 2024 04:51 PM SurfAgeDaydream wrote: Can't see any more other than that, but given that used copies of the first edition go for stupid amounts, I'm delighted! Define “stupid amounts”. I got an SG101 convention trip to finance. — Will "You're done, once you're a surfer you're done. You're in. It's like the mob or something. You're not getting out." - Kelly Slater The Luau Cinders Top
ElMonstroPorFavor Joined: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 2739 New Orleans, LA	Posted on Feb 13 2024 06:05 PM I got two copies for Christmas for the first run. I gave one to a punk library that no longer exists. I regret this. — Storm Surge of Reverb: Surf & Instro Radio Top
SurfAgeDaydream Joined: Jun 30, 2023 Posts: 17	Posted on Feb 15 2024 10:23 AM There was one on ebay UK with a ripped jacket for about £120 but it's gone now. Top

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