Brian Wilson's death: "The Beach Boys' surf music contributed to the commodification of a Native Hawaiian practice"
Interview by Noah Megel
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Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, on Malibu Beach, Los Angeles, in 1988. SHUTTERSTOCK/SIPA
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Interview After Hawaii was colonized by the United States in 1898, the epicenter of surfing gradually migrated to California, creating an entire aesthetic of films and music groups in the late 1950s. The Beach Boys, led by the late Brian Wilson, is one of them.
Among the many wonders that Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday, June 11 , brought to the world, it can be difficult to sort through them, as the mastermind of the Beach Boys was at the origin of a multitude of masterpieces.
Yet, while he happily displayed a surfboard under his arm, a famous anecdote reports that his one and only attempt ended in failure. Worse still, he nearly knocked himself out with it. The rest of the group…
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