California sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the early 1960s.
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12 Facts About California sound
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Later, the California sound was expanded outside its initial geography and subject matter and was developed to be more sophisticated, often featuring studio experimentation.
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California sound gradually evolved to reflect a more musically ambitious and mature worldview, becoming less to do with surfing and cars and more about social consciousness and political awareness.
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Genesis of the California sound is said to be the Beach Boys' debut single "Surfin'" in 1961.
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California sound explained that the group "could not help but mythologize a landscape and way of life that was already so surreal, so proto-mythic, in its setting.
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Cars and the beach, surfing, the California Girl, all this fused in the alembic of youth: Here was a way of life, an iconography, already half-released into the chords and multiple tracks of a new sound.
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The duo helped create a major new market revolving around the California sound, allowing musicians Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher to turn their attention to the Rip Chords, a group who then had hits with the hot-rod themed "Hey Little Cobra" and pseudo-surf "Summer Means Fun".
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The lyricism behind the California sound gradually became less to do with surfing and cars and more about social consciousness and political awareness.
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Commencing with its post-Eisenhower narrative and insulated complacency, the early California sound was predicated on Wilson, Usher, and Melcher's simple fun-in-the-sun ideals.
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California sound is sometimes referred to interchangeably with surf music.
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Some areas within the state of California are connected to their own distinguished "sounds" including the San Francisco sound and the Bakersfield sound (Bakersfield, 1950s).
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Ides noted: "The Los Angeles California sound as popularized in the mainstream obscured or disregarded the contributions made by the working-class, the nonwhite and women.
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