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The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially adverti
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This book examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture. Lawler sets the surfer against the backdrop of t
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The Critical Surf Studies Reader
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The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to