Performing rites : on the value of popular music / Simon Frith.

• Value problem in cultural studies -- Sociological response -- Common sense and the language of criticism -- Genre rules -- Where do sounds come from? -- Rhythm: race, sex, and the body -- Rhythm: time sex, and the mind -- Songs as texts -- Voice -- Performance -- Technology and authority -- Meaning of music -- Toward a popular aesthetic.

• Ranging through and beyond the 20th century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. 

Ämnesord

Populärmusik  (sao)

Music  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Popular music  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Music  -- Philosophy and aesthetics. (LCSH)

Music and society.  (blmlsh)

Popular music.  (fast)

Massenkultur  (gnd)

Popmusik  (gnd)

Soziale Funktion  (gnd)

Popular music  -- Social aspects. (blmlsh)

Music  -- Philosophy and aesthetics. (fast)

Music  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Music and society. 

Popular music  -- Social aspects.

Popular music  (LCSH)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

ML3795 (LCC)

781.64117 (DDC)

LS 48000 (rvk)

24.65 (bcl)