Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music - Hardcover

Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Presumed first edition/first printing. viii, 352 pages. Notes. Index. Price clipped. Name of previous owner present. DJ has slight wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Minor wear and edge soiling noted. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject-and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. Simon Webster Frith OBE (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist, and former rock critic, who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh. He read PPE at Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley. He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock , Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll, Art into Pop (written with Howard Horne), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop, and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. He has also co-edited key anthologies in the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, including: On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word, Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader, and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. In 2006, he took up his current post, Tovey Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Frith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to higher education and popular music. Artikel-Nr. 58691

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