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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 )
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 )
BBC Music Magazine
"quite simply one of the best books I've ever read about music"
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Even 10 years on from it's publication I occassionally return to this volume for it's learned and probing insights into music ( and Sound per se ) - of all kinds - ( it's not only about Rock and Pop , there's as much about Classical , Folk and Jazz in here too ) , the nature of time , space , human experience in general , gender, history , social attitudes , politics and many other topics . It always offers something provocative,and illuminating. I really wonder whther the reviewer above has actually read it. The chapter called ' Rythm , Sex , Time and the Mind ' makes it worth buying alone . But the entire book's a classic. This is the book that bought the run of writing about popular music in the 80's and 90's effectivley to an end. When will we hear from Simon Frith on some new topic ? I for one can't wait .
1 of 56 people found the following review helpful
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The question is: do we need an academic study of pop music? Any right-thinking person would answer 'no'. So there's the problem with this book, and I write as one who bought it. A terrible mistake. Academics write whatever they feel like about whatever subject then support their arguments with highly selective quotes from other books - footnotes compulsory. With pop music this approach is completely superfluous, either you 'get it' or not. Mr Frith would be better advised using his 'talents' in another field of endeavour.
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