“Like an Alan Lomax for the surfing set, Matthew Shaw went broad and deep for this exhaustive, lively, and surprising study of wave riding’s influence on music.” —Scott Hulet, creative director of the Surfer’s Journal and author of Flow Violento
“The best music writing doubles as cultural history. . . . This is a great book for anyone who wants to see how an idea spreads.” —Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of The Loneliest Americans
