surfing music

noun

1. rock-'n'-roll music from California in the early 1960s, characterized by close treble harmonies and with lyrics emphasizing the exhilaration of surfing and beach life.

Example Sentences

The first single, Cayucos, is accompanied by a video with a predictably Instagrammatic glaze and makes us wonder whether chillwave hipsters do surfing music better than the Beach Boys themselves – we actually hated Surfin' Safari and the rest of those early ones, loving the Beach Boys only when Brian Wilson embraced the harmonically complex and revealed himself as a tortured solipsist.

From The Guardian

To actress Britt Ekland, 30, former wife of Comedian Peter Sellers, and her companion for the past two years, Lou Adler, 38, millionaire record producer who rode to success on a wave of surfing music in the '60s: their first child, her second, a son; in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Switch-foot is classic surfing, music and art with a cast of contributors that really brings together a tight little community of surfers spanning three generations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Switch-foot is a collective of like-minded people giving respect to the history of surfing, music, art, surfing legends and surfing photography while retaining independence and creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Something I just realized recently is that I like to see creativity, whether it�s in art, surfing, music, or whatever, people doing their own thing, or the same thing just bigger and better.

From Time Magazine Archive