BOOK REVIEW; Riding the waves of surf history; Two academics take a serious look at the sport's evolution and lure in the impressive 'World in the Curl'

Or is it a good, clean sport that -- in California, at least -- attracts middle-class white males, often supported by wealthy parents and, in turn, feeds the multibillion-dollar clothing, tourism and real estate industries? [...]they argue that a colonial cash economy of sandalwood, whale oil and su...

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Published in:The Los Angeles times 2013
Main Author: Weiss, Kenneth R
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Neushul, Peter
Nonfiction
Surfing
Westwick, Peter
World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing
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Summary:Or is it a good, clean sport that -- in California, at least -- attracts middle-class white males, often supported by wealthy parents and, in turn, feeds the multibillion-dollar clothing, tourism and real estate industries? [...]they argue that a colonial cash economy of sandalwood, whale oil and sugar -- rather than spoilsport missionaries -- suppressed the sport of kings in Hawaii. All the aerospace and defense dollars pouring into postwar Southern California created a middle-income leisure class with teenagers who had no need to get up to milk cows or mine coal.
ISSN:0458-3035