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  • Performing Rites

    On the Value of Popular Music

    by Simon Frith ...
    Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    Edited by Simon Frith, Will Straw, John Street ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of billions and the rise of global stars from Elvis to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Made in Scotland

    Studies in Popular Music

    Edited by Simon Frith, Martin Cloonan, John Williamson ...
    Series series Routledge Global Popular Music Series
    Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, politics, culture, and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015

    From Live Aid to Live Nation

    by Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Music and Copyright

    Edited by Lee Marshall, Simon Frith ...
    Copyright lies at the very heart of the music business. It determines how music is marketed, artists are rewarded, and all the uses to which their work is put. And copyright claims and counter-claims are the source of recurring conflict: Who wrote what and when? Who owns these sounds? What are you allowed to do with them? Disputes about copying and theft are becoming ever noisier with digital ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984

    From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

    by Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Emma Webster ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. Via this focus, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967

    From Dance Hall to the 100 Club

    by Simon Frith, Matt Brennan, Emma Webster, Martin Cloonan ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap, and do so from the unique perspective of the music ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Art Into Pop

    by Simon Frith, Howard Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Taking Popular Music Seriously

    Selected Essays

    by Simon Frith ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute and agreement between the individual actors who make up a music world. The emphasis is always ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • Living Politics, Making Music

    The Writings of Jan Fairley

    by Jan Fairley, edited by Simon Frith, Ian Christie ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sound and Vision

    The Music Video Reader

    Edited by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, Lawrence Grossberg ...
    Sound and Vision is the first significant collection of new and classic texts on video and brings together some of the leading international cultural and music critics writing today.Addressing one of the most controversial forms of popular culture in the contemporary world, Sound and Vision confronts easy interpretations of music video - as promotional vehicles, filmic images and postmodern ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • On Record

    Rock, Pop and the Written Word

    by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin ...
    Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known contributors ... Read more

    $54.99 USD