 In 1971, "Cue" magazine described the Beach Boys as having been "among the vanguard" with regard to art rock, among many other aspects relating to the counterculture, over the period up to late 1967.Jacqueline Edmondson's 2013 encyclopedia "Music in American Life" states that, although it was preceded by earlier examples, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's debut album "Freak Out!