Week 5: Surf Beat

People argue about how even though a song had the word "surf" in its title, it wouldn't be considered surf music. This is one of the many changes that people had to encounter during the 1960s. It was a period when people changed, singers changed, as well as surfers themselves. People blamed it on popular bands such as The Beach Boys and The Beatles. New bands like these believed the rock music was an art, not a simple sort of entertainment. At first, surf music changed the technology of music, but later backfired and surf music was changed by the technology as well.
Besides the musical dilemmas, surfing started to get out of control. Surfers would dangerously crowd the beaches all the time, therefore the authorities later began to ask for surf licenses in order for them to surf on the beach. As Crowley states, "Surfing became a Problem." Since this period of time was so hectic ad busy with the segregation and racism of blacks, it eventually impacted the surf music. Black surf music became popular during the 1960s. It became a political/social drama because the Beach Boys were being blamed for stealing the black music, therefore the Beach Boys decided to quote something they said on the cover of a magazine which stated, "We're not colored; We're white and we sing white." This, obviously, caused a racial conflict. It also led to people getting tired of all the different changes that was occurring to surf music and led some to say hat only surfers could play surf music. The surf music was changing rapidly. There were no surf sounds/ water sounds such as drips, pops, ad drizzles. It was all just "the art of rock". The new "surf music" also eliminated the strong romanticism it used to have. Now it emphasized its message in bravery or white power. Surf music evolved so much that it seemed as though the old surf music was changed completely.