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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Simon Webster Frith is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Edinburgh. Career As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley. He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock , Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll , Art into Pop , Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop , and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music . He has also co-edited key anthologies in the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, including: On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word , Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader , and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock .
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- Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1996) (610)
- Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock `n' Roll. (1982) (591)
- Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music (1998) (278)
- The sociology of rock (1978) (267)
- Rock and sexuality (1978) (262)
- The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (2001) (223)
- Towards an aesthetic of popular music (2017) (208)
- Music for pleasure: Essays in the sociology of pop (1988) (195)
- Art versus technology: the strange case of popular music (1986) (188)
- ‘The magic that can set you free’: the ideology of folk and the myth of the rock community (1981) (177)
- Art Into Pop (1987) (172)
- Music and everyday life (2002) (170)
- On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word (1990) (170)
- Music and identity (1996) (156)
- The popular music industry (2001) (97)
- Live Music Matters (2007) (90)
- The sociology of youth (1984) (84)
- Rock and popular music : politics, policies, institutions (1995) (83)
- Music and Copyright (1995) (70)
- Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays (2007) (65)
- Copyright and the music business (1988) (62)
- Youth and Leisure (1984) (61)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists (1991) (61)
- Why Do Songs Have Words? (1986) (58)
- Look! Hear! The uneasy relationship of music and television (2002) (55)
- Becoming a journalist (2007) (55)
- Why do songs have words (1989) (53)
- Sound and Vision : The Music Video Reader (2005) (52)
- World Music, Politics and Social Change. (1990) (50)
- The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field (2012) (43)
- Live Concert Performance: An Ecological Approach (2016) (43)
- THE MEDIA ECONOMY OF ROCK CULTURE: CINEMA, POST-MODERNITY AND AUTHENTICITY (2005) (41)
- The black box: the value of television and the future of television research (2000) (34)
- What is Bad Music (2013) (33)
- Anglo-America and its discontents (1991) (32)
- Rock and the Politics of Memory (1984) (32)
- Rock, pop and politics (2001) (32)
- The ‘local’ and ‘global’ in popular music (2001) (30)
- What is Good Music (1990) (29)
- Facing the Music (1988) (29)
- Popular Music and the Local State (2005) (29)
- Having an impact? Academics, the music industries and the problem of knowledge (2011) (27)
- Analysing live music in the UK: findings one year into a three-year research project (2010) (27)
- THE POLITICS OF YOUTH CULTURE (2002) (26)
- The Pleasures of the Hearth: the Making of BBC Light Entertainment (1983) (25)
- The Discourse of World Music (2017) (23)
- FORGING MASCULINITY: HEAVY-METAL SOUNDS AND IMAGES OF GENDER (2005) (22)
- Young. Nordic Journal of Youth research (1994) (22)
- Music industry research: Where now? Where next? Notes from Britain (2000) (22)
- Art Ideology and Pop Practice (1988) (22)
- The history of live music in Britain (2013) (21)
- Methodological approaches in media management and media economics research (2005) (21)
- Why Does Music Make People so Cross? (2004) (19)
- Creativity as a Social Fact (2011) (19)
- Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences. The Advent of Pop Music (2006) (19)
- Mapping the Music Industry in Scotland: A Report (2003) (18)
- World music, politics and social change : papers from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (1991) (18)
- The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967: From Dance Hall to the 100 Club (2013) (15)
- Is jazz popular music (2007) (15)
- Afterword: Music Policy, Aesthetic and Social Difference (2005) (15)
- The Industrialization of Popular Music (2017) (14)
- Does British Music Still Matter? (2004) (13)
- On music as a creative industry (2009) (12)
- The Art of Record Production (2019) (12)
- Literary studies as cultural studies – whose literature? whose culture? (1992) (10)
- Popular Music Policy: A Contested Area-the Dutch Experience (2005) (10)
- YOUTH/MUSIC/TELEVISION (2005) (8)
- Illegality and the Music Industry (2002) (8)
- “The Real Thing—Bruce Springsteen” (2012) (7)
- Only Dancing: David Bowie Flirts with the Issues (1983) (7)
- Dick Hebdige STYLE AS HOMOLOGY AND SIGNIFYING PRACTICE (2006) (7)
- What is music worth? Some reflections on the Scottish experience (2004) (7)
- Contemporary culture and the academy: notes towards a research strategy (1993) (6)
- Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock'n' Roll (1983) (6)
- The beat goes on : the rock file reader (1996) (6)
- Going critical: Writing about recordings (2009) (6)
- The Suburban Sensibility in British Rock and Pop (2017) (6)
- Live Music Exchange (2013) (6)
- THE VALUE OF LIVE MUSIC (2013) (5)
- Closing the Circle: a Cultural History of the Rock Revolution (1985) (5)
- The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume 3, 1985–2015 (2021) (5)
- Rock Over the Edge. Transformations in Popular Music Culture. Edited by Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook and Ben Saunders. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 392 pp. ISBN 0–8223–2915–8 (paperback), 0–8223–2900–X (cloth) (2004) (4)
- Living Politics, Making Music: The Writings of Jan Fairley (2014) (4)
- Formalism, Realism and Leisure : The case of punk [1980] (2017) (4)
- Are workers musicians? (2016) (4)
- Editorial Board Editorial Customer Experience Management in the Music Industry Online Communities (4)
- Writing about Popular Music (2019) (3)
- Popular music analysis (2004) (3)
- Missing in Action: Australian Popular Music in Perspective . Edited by Marcus Breen. Kensington, Victoria: Verbal Graphics, 1987. 228 pp. (1988) (3)
- Checking the books: What are universities for? (2001) (3)
- Power to The People: British Music Videos 1966–2016. Thunderbird Releasing, 2017. 900 minutes, 6 discs (2019) (3)
- Reports and debates: The British Film Institute: re-tooling the culture industry (1990) (2)
- Interpreting SBUV smoothing errors (2013) (2)
- The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals (1987) (2)
- Popular Music Policy (2008) (2)
- The Cultural Politics of Techno in Taiwan: The Case of Shining 3 Girls (2009) (2)
- The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume 2: 1968–1984 (2019) (2)
- Music Matters: the Performer and the American Federation of Musicians . By George Seltzer. Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1989. 343 pp. (1990) (2)
- On not being Scottish (2000) (2)
- Playing with Real Feeling: : Making Sense of Jazz in Britain (2017) (2)
- Introduction and chronology of pop and rock (2001) (2)
- Mr Smith draws a map (1999) (2)
- Why music matters (2008) (2)
- Pearls and Swine: The Intellectuals and the Mass Media (2017) (2)
- Jim Collins, Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism; Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture; Morag Shiach, Discourse on Popular Culture (1990) (2)
- Reply to Gary Ansdell and Bent Jensen (2004) (1)
- Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology. By Chris Cutler. Thornton Heath: ReR Megacorp/November Books, 2020. 212 pp. ISBN 9780956018458 (2020) (1)
- The body electric (1995) (1)
- Youth and music (2017) (1)
- Researching Media Management and Media Economics: Methodological Approaches and Issues (2004) (1)
- What does it mean to be cultured? Desert Island Discs as an ideological archive (2017) (1)
- Adam Smith And Music (2017) (1)
- Performing Rites Revisited (2013) (1)
- The Sociology of Music in Britain (2012) (1)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles . Edited by Kenneth Womack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-86965-2 (2012) (1)
- Remembrance of Things Past: Marxism and the Study of Popular Music (2019) (1)
- British Academy Lectures 2014-15 (2016) (1)
- Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie ROCK AND SEXUALITY (2006) (1)
- Amateurs@@@Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture@@@Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music@@@Postmodernism and Popular Culture@@@Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital (1998) (1)
- Debate: Quote Unquote (1995) (1)
- The ‘Cox Report’ and the university (1990) (1)
- More than meets the ear : on listening as a social practice (2018) (1)
- The Sound of the City (1984) (1)
- Perfect Beat (1993) (1)
- Book Review: Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850–1950; My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism (2006) (1)
- Living Politics, Making Music (2014) (1)
- Music and society (2004) (1)
- 1 Making Sense of Copyright (2004) (0)
- Paul M.Hirsch PROCESSING FADS AND FASHIONS (2006) (0)
- Introduction (2008) (0)
- The Rolling Stones, Earls Court, May 21–23 and 25–27, 1976 (2019) (0)
- ‘Fast Forward’ Reviews a History of the VCR (1988) (0)
- British Academy Lectures 2013-14 (2015) (0)
- THE ROCK BOHEMIANS (2016) (0)
- The political economy of music festivals (2021) (0)
- RoJaRo Index (1996) (0)
- The age of rock (2019) (0)
- Mark W.Booth JINGLE (2006) (0)
- A snapshot of live music in Sheffield in October–November 2007 (2021) (0)
- The live music ecology (2021) (0)
- Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted: the Country Side Of Southern Soul. By Barney Hoskyns. Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1987, 239 pp.The Death of Rhythm & Blues. By Nelson George. New York: Pantheon, 1988. 222 pp. (1990) (0)
- Musical Creativity as a Social Fact (2014) (0)
- “The Atmosphere Was Entirely Good Humoured” (2021) (0)
- Jan Fairley (2012) (0)
- British Academy Lectures, 2015-16 (2017) (0)
- 10 Music and the Media (2004) (0)
- Live music and the state (2019) (0)
- Classical music (2019) (0)
- Acknowledgements (2009) (0)
- Roland Barthes THE GRAIN OF THE VOICE (2006) (0)
- From Hyde Park to the Hacienda: 1968-1984 (2013) (0)
- Moving to a different beat: jungle, bhangra, garage and grime (2021) (0)
- A snapshot of Sheffield in October–November 1976 (2019) (0)
- THE POP SITUATIONISTS (2016) (0)
- Editorial (2012) (0)
- Tom Carson ROCKET TO RUSSIA (2006) (0)
- Education: Research matters (1999) (0)
- Hearing secret harmonies (2017) (0)
- Debate article: The centre writes back. A response to YOUNG (2000) (0)
- Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945–65, by Julia Mitchell (2021) (0)
- PART FOUR The Creative Process (2006) (0)
- Validation of the OMPS Nadir Profiler Ozone on Suomi NPP (2019) (0)
- The rock era (2004) (0)
- Why Does Music Make People so Cross (2008) (0)
- We Are the World (0)
- Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology.Deena Weinstein (1992) (0)
- Will Straw CHARACTERIZING ROCK MUSIC CULTURE (2006) (0)
- Rock musicians and their discontents (2019) (0)
- Clubland (2019) (0)
- 7 Commodifying Music: Tickets, Copies, and Licenses (2020) (0)
- Festival worlds (0)
- The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984: From Hyde Park to the Hacienda (2019) (0)
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research. Edited by Allan Moore and Paul Carr. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 636pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-3045-2 (2021) (0)
- The changing make-up of Bohemia: Who was the readership? (2015) (0)
- Live music experience in the digital age (2021) (0)
- Live music business (2019) (0)
- Dave Laing (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1990) (0)
- Charles Hamm @80: a song well sung (2005) (0)
- British Academy Lectures 2012-13: Published in the online Journal of the British Academy (2014) (0)
- A snapshot of live music in Bristol in October–November 2007 (2021) (0)
- DJ business (0)
- Greil Marcus CORRUPTING THE ABSOLUTE (2006) (0)
- Edward R.Kealy FROM CRAFT TO ART (2006) (0)
- A snapshot of live music in Glasgow in October–November 2007 (0)
- You must remember this: Recognising the remembering voice (2014) (0)
- Afterword (2018) (0)
- The cinema as a venue for live music (2015) (0)
- The Rolling Stones, Twickenham, August 20 and 22, 2006 (2021) (0)
- What has the BBC ever done for us? (2020) (0)
- MIDDLE EIGHT – Are workers musicians? (2017) (0)
- The late 70s saw the heyday of political pop. Since then it has waned. Or has it (1983) (0)
- The ideology of live music (2019) (0)
- Rock and the Pop Narcotic . By Joe Carducci. Chicago: Redoubt Press. 1990. 292 pp. Living in the Rock N Roll Mystery . By H. L. Goodall Jr Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 1991. 286 pp. (1992) (0)
- Donald Horton THE DIALOGUE OF COURTSHIP IN POPULAR SONG (2006) (0)
- From politics to music, from music to politics (1992) (0)
- Culture Studies/Rock Critic Twofer (2021) (0)
- A snapshot of Bristol in October–November 1976 (2019) (0)
- New times (0)
- Roger Wallis and Krister Malm PATTERNS OF CHANGE (2006) (0)
- The Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards (1991) (0)
- Conclusion: the value of live music (2021) (0)
- Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel THE YOUNG AUDIENCE (2006) (0)
- From DIY to indie (2019) (0)
- Debate article (2000) (0)
- Reviews of Books (1975) (0)
- Taking care of business (2021) (0)
- Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll (1982) (0)
- Making a musical living (2021) (0)
- ART AND POP REVISITED (2016) (0)
- Shorter Notices (1982) (0)
- Representations of the people: voices of authority in Pop Music (1993) (0)
- Reviews (1999) (0)
- The Business of Live Music (2011) (0)
- Gas generator for air bag (2002) (0)
- Soul, disco, DJs and the new club scene (2019) (0)
- Susan McClary and Robert Walser START MAKING SENSE (2006) (0)
- ART AND POP (2016) (0)
- The Best Disco Record: Sharon Redd: “Never Give You Up” (2008) (0)
- The John Logie Baird Centre (1989) (0)
- The lives and work of Bob Dylan (2022) (0)
- A snapshot of Glasgow in October–November 1976 (2019) (0)
- The state and education : some theoretical approaches . Education and the labour market (1981) (0)
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