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1	Facing the Music more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist An important addition to the Pantheon Guides, Facing the Music turns the critical screws on the music industry in five essays on every aspect of the business--and the pleasure. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
2	Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist What is it that makes us nod our head in time with the rhythm, tap our feet, grin, grimace, flip the dial? What is it that makes music "good" and what leads us to make these myriad critical decisions about popular culture each day? This text considers these questions and seeks to uncover the meaning which is manufactured by popular music. From ... see all copies from $8.23! new only from $21.27! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader more books like this by Dr. Lawrence Grossberg (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor), Andrew Goodwin (Editor) add to wishlist Music video is one of the most important emergent cultural forms in contemporary popular culture. It has had a profound impact both on music, fashion and youth culture, and on the codes and forms that operate across television, film and advertising. But until now criticism has denied the specific nature of the form and its cultural history. Sound ... see all copies from $5.05! new only from $28.73! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock more books like this by Simon Frith (Editor), Will Straw (Editor), John Street (Editor) add to wishlist This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence of a vast industry with a turnover of ... see all copies from $5.29! new only from $14.55! \| SVS
5	On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word more books like this by Frith Simon, Simon Frith (Editor), Andrew Goodwin (Editor) add to wishlist Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote an essay on the Top 40? The serious study of popular music has a history as deep and diverse as the music itself, from the ponderings of philosophers to the passionate prose of critics in mimeographed magazines. Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, both writers and teachers of popular music, have compiled ... see all copies from $10.20! new only from $32.75! \| first editions
6	Sound Effects more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $82.00!
7	Beat Goes on: The Rock File Reader more books like this by Charlie Gillett (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor) add to wishlist The "Rock File" series was published between 1972 and 1978 by Panther and has been out of print for over 15 years. This volume is an anthology of the five original volumes, reprinted with new introductions. "Rock File" charted the trajectory of popular music in Britain at a critical point in its development, from the people who created the music ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $80.59!
8	Music and Copyright more books like this by Lee Marshall add to wishlist Copyright lies at the very heart of the music business. It determines how music is marketed, artists are rewarded, and all the uses to which their work is put. And copyright claims and counter-claims are the source of recurring conflict: Who wrote what and when? Who owns these sounds? What are you allowed to do with them? Disputes about copying ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $28.15! \| SVS
9	Music and Copyright more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist In an age of increasing technology and globalization this book takes a look at the international state of intellectual property. Written by music researchers and journalists, it highlights problems and solutions for the music industry and lawyers in the USA, Japan, Australia and Germany amongst others, and analyzes the cultural issues at work in ... see all copies from $38.23! new only from $40.03!
10	On Record: Rock and Pop more books like this by Simon Frith (Editor), Andrew Goodwin (Editor) add to wishlist The first collection of classic essays in the serious study of popular music is full of the famous, hard-to-find, off-beat, and influential articles that have shaped rock cultural studies. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $99.00!
11	Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. The essays in this important collection address these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute, and agreement between the individual actors ... see all copies from $130.35! new only from $130.35!
12	Facing the music : essays on pop, rock and culture more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist A collection of essays exploring popular culture and its relationship to rock music, which discusses such subjects as the rationale behind Hit Parade radio, black and white "crossover" music, the packaging of pop as a commodity, and how pop music shapes teenage identity and sexuality. see all copies from $12.68! first editions
13	Rock file. 4 more books like this by Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00!
14	Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $31.19! new only from $31.19!
15	Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist Simon Frith examines the heritage of popular music, and how technology has changed not only the production but the reception of this brand of sound. The collection examines how the traditional genres of rock, pop and soul have broken down and what has replaced them, as well as showing how this proliferation of musical styles has also splintered ... see all copies from $1,314.81! new only from $1,314.81! \| SVS
16	Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Pop more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist In this book Simon Frith offers a wide-ranging analysis of pop music and the entertainment industry of which it is part. From the BBC in the 1930s to post-punk poseurs in the 1980s, from Gracie Fields and the Shangri-Las to Bruce Springsteen and the Pet Shop Boys, Simon Frith examines the contours and the politics of the modern pop music culture. ... see all copies from $6.90! new only from $197.76! \| first editions
17	The Sociology of Rock more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $83.24!
18	Rock file. 5 more books like this by Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions
19	Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock'n'roll more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! first editions
20	The British Edge by Simon Frith, Dick Hebdige, Victor Burgin add to wishlist see all copies from $25.19!
21	A Practical Approach to Landlord & Tenant more books like this by Simon Garner add to wishlist This concise and readable title explains the fundamentals of landlord and tenant law. While the sheer bulk of legislation applying to this area of law can appear intimidating, A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant Law provides a systematic guide to the principles and practice of land and property law which is ideal for student and ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $87.87!
22	On Record: Pop and Rock more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $7.32!
23	Art Into Pop more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $34.87!
24	Rock file. 3 more books like this by Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $12.55!
25	La Otra Historia del Rock more books like this by Simon Frith add to wishlist see all copies from $53.48! new only from $53.48!

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