Surf music

Surf music is a genre of popular music associated with surf culture.

Related Topics:
Genre - Popular music - Surf culture

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It has more than three main streams or subgenres:

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• Instrumental dance music in which electric guitars with a distinctive sustained but undistorted sound predominate.
• Surf pop music, including both surf ballads and dance music that includes a vocal line.
• Surf rock, which overlaps both the other streams, sometimes even to the point of being used as a synonym for surf music generally.
• A recent addition can be the singer songwriter genre, which includes artists like Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, Matt Costa, among others.

Many notable surf bands have been equally noted for both surf instrumental and surf pop music, so surf music is generally considered as a single genre despite the variety of these styles.

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