Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music - Hardcover

Frith, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674661958 ISBN 13: 9780674661950

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Simon Frith is Professor of English at Strathclyde University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674661958
• ISBN 13: 9780674661950
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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