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  • Performing Rites

    On the Value of Popular Music

    by Simon Frith ...
    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, distill 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 ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Taking Popular Music Seriously

    Selected Essays

    by Simon Frith ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    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 who make up a music world. The emphasis is always ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume II, 1968-1984

    From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    To date, there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. Via this focus, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume III, 1985-2015

    From Live Aid to Live Nation

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    To date there has been a significant gap in existing knowledge about the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK, focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967

    From Dance Hall to the 100 Club

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History of Live Music in Britain address this gap, and do so from the unique perspective of the music ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Archers Archives

    The Archers Archives celebrates 60 years of the nation's favourite radio drama - looking back at the most dramatic events to happen over 16,000 episodes, complete with cast and crew interviews. Relive the defining moments in Archers history, from the devastating 1955 stables fire and the 1957 Tom Forrest manslaughter charge to the shocking imprisonment of Susan Carter in the early 1990s, the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Art Into Pop

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • On Record

    Rock, Pop and the Written Word

    Classic sociological analyses of 'deviance' and rebellion; studies of technology; subcultural and feminist readings, semiotic and musicological essays and close readings of stars, bands and the fans themselves by Adorno, Barthes and other well-known contributors ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Living Politics, Making Music

    The Writings of Jan Fairley

    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    The late Jan Fairley (1949-2012) was a key figure in making world music a significant topic for popular music studies and an influential contributor to such world music magazines as fRoots and Songlines. This book celebrates her contribution to popular music scholarship by gathering her most important work together in a single place. The result is a richly informed and entertaining volume that ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant

    Series series A Practical Approach
    The A Practical Approach series is the perfect partner for practice work. Each title focuses on one field of the law, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject together with clear, practical advice and tips on issues likely to arise in practice. The books are also an excellent resource for those new to the law, where the expert overview and clear layout promote clarity and ease of ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Defiant Voices That Shattered Christendom – 4 Classic Protestant Reformation Texts

    Enriched edition. Address To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Servetus and Calvin, A Supplication for the Beggars

    In 'Defiant Voices That Shattered Christendom – 4 Classic Protestant Reformation Texts,' readers will delve into a carefully curated selection of seminal works that encapsulate the fervor of the Protestant Reformation. The anthology presents a tapestry of ideas reflecting the revolutionary spirit that challenged the prevailing doctrines of the Catholic Church. These texts of varied literary styles ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Music and Copyright

    Edited by Lee Marshall, Simon Frith ...
    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 and theft are becoming ever noisier with digital ... Read more

    $70.99 USD