Performing Rites by Simon Frith

Performing Rites by Simon Frith

This volume asks what we talk about when we talk about music. Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, it takes these forms of engagement and discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture.

Frith understands precisely what pop music is actually for, and thus has a right to write about it that few others share* Pete Townshend *
This is a good, and arguably a great book. * Colin McCabe, New Statesman & Society *
quite simply one of the best books I've ever read about music * BBC Music Magazine *
Pop music matters to Frith, and he gives one of the best accounts yet written of how and why this should be so ... a very necessary book. * Peter Aspden, Financial Times *

Simon Frith is Professor of English and Director of the John Logie Baird Centre at Strathclyde University. He is well-known as a rock critic and has written for Village Voice, The Sunday Times, and The Observer. He has been Chairman of the Judges of the Mercury Music Prize since 1992.

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ISBN 13	9780192880604
ISBN 10	0192880608
Title	Performing Rites
Author	Simon Frith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1998-07-16
Number of pages	360
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