Contents
Part I: Musical Commentaries
1. “Brian Comes Alive”: Celebrity, Performance, and the Limitations of Biography in Lyric Reading - Kirk Curnutt
2. Pet Sound Effects - Daniel Harrison
3. Brian Wilson’s Harmonic Language - Philip Lambert
Part II: Historical Inquiries
4. Summer of ’64 - Keir Keightley
5. When I Grow Up: The Beach Boys’ Early Music - Jadey O’Regan
6. Into the Mystic?: The Undergrounding of Brian Wilson, 1964–1967 - Dale Carter
7. Good Reverberations - Philip Lambert
Part III: Smile
8. Fandom and Ontology in Smile - Andrew Flory
9. A Listener’s Smile - Larry Starr
General Bibliography
Contributors
Index