| Performing Rites Revised Edition Contributor(s): Frith, Simon (Author), Frith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0192880608 ISBN-13: 9780192880604 Publisher: OUP Oxford OUR PRICE: $54.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Social Science | Popular Culture - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 781.641 |
| LCCN: 96020507 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.12 lbs) 364 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Who's better? Billie Holiday or P.J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distil our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In this book, the author 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 centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture and colour our lives. |