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Empire in Waves. Scott Laderman
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isbn 9780520958043
Автор произведения Scott Laderman
Серия Sport in World History
Издательство Ingram
That road broadened with every passing year. As late as the early 1960s, Hawai‘i had been the ultimate object of surfing desire. Then came The Endless Summer and its vision of cultural encounter. Mexico began to beckon, as did Peru and South Africa. Countries that had not previously graced tourist itineraries suddenly found themselves flooded with board-toting visitors. Surfers are “always the first to sniff out an untrammeled destination,” wrote the New York Times.71 If there was a coast, surfers came. They blazed trails around the world, vastly expanding or even opening the tourism profiles of nations from Morocco to Mauritius. As “countercultural rebels” (more on this in chapter 5), they were what Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter called “the ‘shock troops’ of mass tourism.”72 Yet no area of the world attracted more attention in the 1970s than Southeast Asia, with its warm water, cheap accommodations, and jungle-fringed beaches.
Southeast Asia had, of course, been much on the minds of young surfers throughout the second half of the 1960s. With the United States enmeshed in a brutal counterrevolution in Vietnam, millions of young men in the United States and Australia—the world’s twin centers of global surf culture—found themselves confronting the possibility of military conscription. Filmgoers today can tell you all about surfing and the Vietnam War. After all, they have seen Apocalypse Now (1979). In the film, Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, memorably played by Robert Duvall, calls for the destruction of a coastal Vietnamese village so that he and his men can surf a nearby break. They do so amid enemy fire. “If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, captain, it’s safe to surf this beach,” Duvall shouts at a doubting member of his unit. It was during this sequence, probably the film’s best remembered, that the famous lines “Charlie don’t surf” and “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” were uttered.
FIGURE 8. Surfing during the Vietnam War was not just a figment of Hollywood’s imagination. It was in fact a notable feature of the U.S. military’s rest-and-recuperation circuit. The military even sponsored surfing contests. In this photograph, several competitors exit the water at a contest in Chu Lai in September 1966. Credit: Photograph of Captain Rodney Bothelo, Elli Vade Bon Cowur, Robert D. Brinkley, Tim A. Crowder, and Steven C. Richardson, September 26, 1966, ARC ID 532396, Record Group 127, Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division, National Archives II, College Park, Mary land.
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