Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays

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Routledge, 05.07.2017 - 360 Seiten
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 on discourse, on the way in which people talk and write about music, and the part this plays in the social construction of musical meaning and value. The collection includes nineteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field, along with an autobiographical introduction.
 

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1 Youth and Music 1978
1
The Ideology of Folk and the Myth of the Rock Community 1981
31
3 Rock and Sexuality with Angela McRobbie 197879
41
4 Afterthoughts 1985
59
the Case of the Punk 1980
65
the Strange Case of Popular Music 1986
77
7 The Industrialization of Popular Music 1987
93
Making Sense of Jazz in Britain 1988
119
12 Look Hear The Uneasy Relationship of Music and Television 2002
183
13 Music and Everyday Life 2003
197
14 Why do Songs have Words? 1987
209
15 Hearing Secret Harmonies 1986
239
16 Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music 1987
257
17 Adam Smith and Music 1992
275
18 Music and Identity 1996
293
19 What is Bad Music? 2004
313

9 The Suburban Sensibility in British Rock and Pop 1997
137
10 The Discourse of World Music 2000
149
11 Pop Music 2001
167

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Simon Frith has degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, UK, and Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. His main research interest is popular music on which his latest publication is Music and Copyright (2004). From 1995-1999 he was Director of the ESRC Media Economics and Media Culture Research Programme. He is currently Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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