Performing Rites

Simon Frith

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: OUP Oxford, 1998

0192880608 / 9780192880604

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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'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 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. …

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Titolo
Performing Rites
Autore
Simon Frith
Editore
OUP Oxford
Anno di pubblicazione
1998
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0192880608
ISBN 13
9780192880604
Peso dell'articolo
553 grammi
Dimensioni
234x156x20 mm

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