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Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present
By Bovey, Seth
- ISBN
- 9781789140651
- Publisher
- Reaktion
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Reviewed on April 1, 2019 | Arts & Humanities
Musician Bovey (English, Louisiana State Univ. at Alexandria) enthusiastically romps through the history of guitar-driven, feedback-infused garage rock. He starts with such precursors of the broadly defined genre as the Wailers, the Kingsmen, the Sonics, the Trashmen, and the distorted surf-garage of Dick Dale. Turning to the mid-Sixties heyday of garage bands, which arose in the wake of the British Invasion, the author conside...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
