Inside the Music of Brian Wilson
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{{Short description|2007 book by Philip Lambert}}
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Inside the Music of Brian Wilson (subtitled The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius) is a 2007 book that analyzes the music of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, authored by American musicologist Philip Lambert. It is the first book dedicated primarily to Wilson's music, rather than his personal life.
Background
Philip Lambert (1960–2022) was a professor of music at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He was initially known for specializing in the music of composer Charles Ives, and authored a book on the subject, The Music of Charles Ives (1997).{{cite news |last1=Salazar |first1=Amanda |title=Baruch music professor of nearly 35 years dies at 63 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |date=March 18, 2022|url=https://theticker.org/6591/news/baruch-music-professor-of-nearly-35-years-dies-at-63/}} After the mid-2000s, he specialized in popular music and musical theatre. His textbooks Basic Post-Tonal Theory (2018) and Analysis and Principles of Music (2017) are also widely used.{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Professor Philip Lambert |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoriam-professor-philip-lambert |website=gc.cuny.edu |publisher=City University of New York |access-date=April 14, 2022 |date=February 10, 2022}}
Reception
In his review for PopMatters, Adam Bunch rued that the book has limited appeal to casual fans of the Beach Boys, as it requires the reader to have a rudimentary understanding of music theory.{{cite web |last1=Bunch |first1=Adam |title=Inside the Music of Brian Wilson by Philip Lambert |url=https://www.popmatters.com/inside-the-music-of-brian-wilson-by-philip-lambert-2496175298.html |website=PopMatters |access-date=April 14, 2022 |date=March 28, 2007}} Quentin Rowan of the New York Post concurred, "Lambert himself is a professor of music theory, and at times, although enlightening, his prose borders on being for music scholars alone."{{cite news |last1=Rowan |first1=Quentin |title=Inside the Music of Brian Wilson |work=New York Post |date=April 15, 2007}}
London Times reviewer Jesse Jarnow declared, "Lambert’s work is extraordinary for what it is, examining the young songwriter piece by piece as Wilson teases out his own voice. It’s not exactly poetry, but it is of extraordinary value."{{cite news |last1=Jarnow |first1=Jesse |title=A couple of mono maniacs |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article1649633.ece |work=The Times |date=April 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706202034/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article1649633.ece |archive-date=July 6, 2008}} Academic Robert Iannapollo referred to it as the finest book ever written about the Beach Boys.{{cite journal |last1=Iannapollo |first1=Robert |title=Becoming the Beach Boys, 1961–1963 |journal=Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal |date=2013 |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=307–309}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |ref=none|last1=Lambert |first1=Philip |title=Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds |journal=Twentieth-Century Music |date=March 2008 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=109–133 |doi=10.1017/S1478572208000625 |url=https://www.academia.edu/17300178 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|s2cid=162871617 |url-access=registration}}
- {{cite book|ref=none|editor-last=Lambert|editor-first=Philip|title=Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective|url=https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/nv935376j|year=2016 |publisher=University of Michigan Press|doi=10.3998/mpub.9275965 |isbn=978-0-472-11995-0|s2cid=192796203 }}
External links
- {{WorldCat|oclc=654236799}}
- [{{Google Books URL|id=QJcyEAAAQBAJ}} Inside the Music of Brian Wilson] at Google Books
- [https://provost.baruch.cuny.edu/messages/the-passing-of-philip-lambert/ The passing of Philip Lambert]
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Category:Biographies about musicians
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