TSDK No. 54. The True History of Beach Music

From "Beach Bodies", a work in progress.

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The ancients did not write songs about beaches. Although it’s theoretically possible that the Etruscans who lived along the Tyrrhenian Sea had a corpus of ditties about good vibrations, the golden surf, tanned girls and palm trees, history would suggest otherwise.

For millennia, our ancestors regarded the beach as an unpleasant place that you crossed o…