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The global jukebox
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ISBN: 1134872100 1134872097 1282320076 9786612320071 0203137779 9780203137772 9780415092753 0415092752 9780415092760 0415092760 9781134872107 0415092752 0415092760 9781134872091 9781282320079 6612320079 9781134872053 Year: 1996 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday environment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication.The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry acknowledges its ever growing global audience. Robert Burnett provides an international overview of the music business and its future prospects in the UK, Northern Europe and the United States and Canada. He examines the relationship between local and global cultures and between concent

Performing rites : on the value of popular music
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ISBN: 0674661958 0674661966 9780674661967 9780674661950 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

Performing rites : evaluating popular music
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ISBN: 0192880608 9780192880604 9780198163329 0198163320 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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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 discloses their place at the very centre of the aesthetics that structure our culture 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 undeniable impact of poplar aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads 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 as not only meriting aesthetic judgements but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means

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