California Sound

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the California Sound

  1. (music) A popular music aesthetic engendered by 1960s pop and rock recording artists from the California area, associated with optimistic youth culture.
    • 2025 June 14, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Obituary: Visionary who grew from Surfin' to audacious experimenter”, in FT Weekend, page 10:
      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.

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