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Author(s): Simon Frith
ISBN(s): 9780754626794, 0754626792
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 22.60 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0754626792 

ISBN 13: 978-0754626794

Author: Simon Frith

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.

Table of contents: 

  1. Introduction

  2. Bibliography

  3. Youth and music

  4. ‘The magic that can set you free’: the ideology of folk and the myth of the rock community

  5. Rock and sexuality (with Angela McRobbie)

  6. Afterthoughts

  7. Formalism, realism and leisure: the case of the punk

  8. Art vs. technology: the strange case of popular music

  9. The industrialisation of popular music

  10. Playing with real feeling: making sense of jazz in Britain

  11. The suburban sensibility in British rock and pop

  12. The discourse of world music

  13. Pop music

  14. Look! hear! the uneasy relationship of music and television

  15. Music and everyday life

  16. Why do songs have words?

  17. Hearing secret harmonies

  18. Towards an aesthetic of popular music

  19. Adam Smith and music

  20. Music and identity

  21. What is bad music?

  22. Index

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