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Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music Paperback - 1998
by Frith, Simon
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- Title Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
- Author Frith, Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-02-06
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780674661967
- ISBN 9780674661967 / 0674661966
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.37 x 6.12 x 0.91 in (23.80 x 15.54 x 2.31 cm)
- Reading level 1530
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Philosophy and aesthetics, Popular music - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.641
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From the rear cover
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.