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Overview

Simon Frith is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Music and related interdisciplinary areas.

The researcher's work spans several subfields, including:

  • Music
  • Archeology
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Economics and Econometrics

The main topics explored by Simon Frith encompass:

  • Music History and Culture
  • Diverse Musicological Studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Theater, Performance, and Music History

Simon Frith has contributed to multiple scholarly publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Popular Music
  • The English Historical Review
  • Puls - musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift
  • Journal of the Society for American Music

Their recent papers include:

  • "What has the BBC ever done for us?", 2020, Popular Music
  • "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research. Edited by Allan Moore and Paul Carr. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 636pp. ISBN 978-1-5013-3045-2", 2021, Popular Music
  • "Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945-65, by Julia Mitchell", 2021, The English Historical Review
  • "Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology. By Chris Cutler. Thornton Heath: ReR Megacorp/November Books, 2020. 212 pp. ISBN 9780956018458", 2020, Popular Music
  • "Accidents, Obstacles and Opportunities", 2022, Puls - musik- och dansetnologisk tidskrift

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Simon Frith include:

  • Martin Cloonan
  • Christopher Ballantine
  • Nicole Biamonte
  • Alf Bjo
  • Sweden

Best Publications

  • Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

    Simon Frith

  • Rock and sexuality

    Simon Frith

  • Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock `n' Roll.

    Deena Weinstein;Simon Frith

  • Sound and Vision : The Music Video Reader

    Simon Frith;Andrew Goodwin;Lawrence Grossberg

  • Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music

    Simon Frith

  • The sociology of rock

    Simon Frith

  • The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    Simon Frith;Will Straw;John Street

  • On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

    Simon Frith;Andrew Goodwin

  • ‘The magic that can set you free’: the ideology of folk and the myth of the rock community

    Simon Frith

  • Art versus technology: the strange case of popular music:

    Simon Frith

  • Art into Pop

    Simon Frith;Howard Horne

  • Music for pleasure: Essays in the sociology of pop

    Simon Frith

  • Music and everyday life

    Simon Frith

  • Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll

    Simon Frith

  • Analysing Live Music in the UK: Findings One Year into a Three-Year Research Project

    Simon Frith;Matthew Brennan;Martin Cloonan;Emma Webster

  • The popular music industry

    Simon Frith

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967: From Dance Hall to the 100 Club

    Simon Frith;Matthew Brennan;Martin Cloonan;Emma Webster

  • Why do songs have words

    Simon Frith

  • Copyright and the music business

    Simon Frith

  • Live Music Matters

    Simon Frith

  • Towards an aesthetic of popular music

    Simon Frith

  • Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock

    John Street;Will Straw;Simon Frith

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett Western Sydney University
Lawrence Grossberg
Lawrence Grossberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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