Performing Rites (Paperback)

Simon Frith

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

0192880608 / 9780192880604

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Paperback. 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 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'sbad? 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 ashis subject - and discusses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure and colour 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 impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our head or tap our feet,grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's `for real' - these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music.Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here not only meriting aesthetic judgements but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means. This volume asks what we talk about when we talk about music. Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, it takes these forms of engagement and discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

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Titolo
Performing Rites (Paperback)
Autore
Simon Frith
Editore
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
1998
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0192880608
ISBN 13
9780192880604

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