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California Sound en · PROPN
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A popular music aesthetic engendered by 1960s pop and rock recording artists from the California area, associated with optimistic youth culture.
The Beach Boys struck gold with swoony choral harmonies, twangy surf-music guitars and beats cresting like waves on an eternally sunny Pacific shoreline: the “California sound”, as it was dubbed.
2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Obituary: Visionary who grew from Surfin’ to audacious experimenter”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
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sunshine pop