About this title: 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 Toscanini to the Pet Shop Boys, "Performing Rites" ranges over and beyond popular music in its exploration of the influence of popular aesthetics. Value judgements are made constantly in all our life-decisions, monumental and mundane, intellectual and ...
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Edition: First Paper Edition
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674661967ISBN:0674661966
Description: Very Good. Currently in print for $20.50. This item is IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. Bookstore stickers on back wrapper with some marks / underlining / highlighting-otherwise as described. read more
Description: Good. 0674661958 Former Library book. The Book shows some signs of wear. The pages? edges are dusty/dirty/stained. There may be some markings inside the book. A Great Book! 100% Money Back Guarantee! ! ! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press., Cambridge
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674661967ISBN:0674661966
Description: Second printing in trade paperback. 352 pp. Notes, index. Light shelfwear to covers, hint of moisture wrinkling to bottom edge of first part of text. Very Good. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674661950ISBN:0674661958
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 352pp. Sporatic yelloe highlighting throughout text. Former owner's name/info is marked over with a black marker on the front flyleaf. read more
Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674661950ISBN:0674661958
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by previous owner. DJ has slight wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Minor wear and edge soiling noted. viii, 352 p. Notes. Index. 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674661950ISBN:0674661958
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Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674661967ISBN:0674661966
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 352 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 01/08/1996
ISBN-13:9780198163329ISBN:0198163320
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Description: Good. 0674661966 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. 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 an... read more
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