Frith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frith |
| FAMILY NAME | Frith |
| SIGNATURE | FRITH |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9774-8722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Listomania
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Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) The Tenementals
The Tenementals are a Glasgow rock group. This record, released last autumn, is the band's debut. It is what was once called 'a concept album', a journey through Glasgow's radical history in song. And good songs they are too. The record starts with an overview, 'The Owl of Minerva', an aggressive musical flow of ideas. David Archibald's Glaswegian inflections have the enveloping fervour of a table-sharing stranger in a Glasgow pub; the band--Bob …
Live Music in America. A History from Jenny Lind to Beyoncé By Steve Waksman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022
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Noves consideracions sobre Performing Rites
Performing Rites. On the Value of Popular Music es va publicar fa vint-i-cinc anys. L’objectiu del llibre era abordar qüestions de valor musical i demostrar que els arguments que qualificaven la música de bona o dolenta eren tan necessaris per a la cultura musical popular com per a l’art culte. Aquest article examina els canvis en les pràctiques i estudis de la música popular durant l’últim quart de segle i reflexiona sobre els efectes d’aquests …
Philip Tagg (22 February 1944-9 May 2024)
Lives in Music
One of the more annoying aspects of the life of a popular music academic is that we study music that is primarily made and used by people who seem to have no interest at all in what we have to say. Popular musicians and fans are engaged with what we're talking about but not with how we talk about it. When the first volume of our history of live music came out, covering 1950-67 (Frith et al. 2013), I did some non-academic promotional work for it -…
The lives and work of Bob Dylan
According to the website Come writers and critics, which keeps a running list of all 'documents related to Bob Dylan printed on paper', by the end of 2021 (Dylan's 80th year), there were 829 books about him in English and 723 in 36 other languages (from 175 in German to one each in Bulgarian and Vietnamese).1 The list is indiscriminate in terms of the various books' quality, originality or readability, but looking at the bibliographies of the var…
Determination of Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Parameters of Doxycycline against Edwardsiella ictaluri in Yellow Catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco)
This study aimed to examine the pharmacokinetics of doxycycline (DC) in yellow catfish (Pelteobagrus fulvidraco) and to calculate related pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) parameters of DC against Edwardsiella ictaluri. The minimum inhibitory concentration of DC against E. ictaluri was determined to be 500 μg/L. As the increase of oral dose from 10 to 40 mg/kg, the area under the concentration vs. time curve from 0 to 96 h (AUC0–96) values …
What has the BBC ever done for us
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Power to The People: British Music Videos 1966–2016. Thunderbird Releasing, 2017. 900 minutes, 6 discs
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Dave Laing
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Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays
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 on discourse, on the way in which people talk and w…
Pearls and Swine: The Intellectuals and the Mass Media
The problem of cultural populism has resonance outside the academy too. In the second edition of his book, McGuigan might well consider the curious case of the Modern Review, a magazine dedicated to taking popular culture seriously by defining itself against academic cultural studies. In sales terms, the Modern Review is not significant, but it exemplifies the dominant voice of lay cultural populism. Describing itself as providing 'low culture fo…
Are workers musicians
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MIDDLE EIGHT - Are workers musicians
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Live Concert Performance: An Ecological Approach
For the last decade we have been engaged in the study of the history, economics, and sociology of live music in Britain. In this article we will consider the value of “ecology” as an analytic concept (rather than just a buzzword) and compare an ecological account of the setting in which music happens to the use of previous spatial metaphors, from Durkheim’s milieus to Straw’s scenes. To illustrate our argument, we present case studies of three Sc…
La Nueva Canción Latinoamericana (1984)
In 1998 the Chilean musical group Inti-Illimani celebrated their thirtieth anniversary. During these 30 years they have achieved the greatest international reputation of any of Chile’s nueva canción groups, enjoying periods of enormous popularity at home and abroad, especially in Italy. In 2002, as I write this piece, they are a year short of celebrating 35 years. Yet between 1998 and 2002 two key members left the group: musical director Horacio …
Live Music Exchange
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Jan Fairley
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Music and Identity
Having an impact? Academics, the music industries and the problem of knowledge
This article reflects upon recent interest in knowledge transfer from higher education to the creative industries, using the UK music industries as a case study. It suggests that traditional academic values of impartiality and concern with research methodology can come in to conflict with instrumentalist agendas that see research as valuable only insofar as it fits with pre‐existing worldviews and policy ends. In this setting, knowledge resistanc…
The politics of youth culture
On music as a creative industry
Retour sur l'esthétique de la musique pop
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Becoming a journalist: Journalism education and journalism culture
In the last 30 years there has been a transformation in the way in which young people in the UK have become journalists. Not only has journalism become a graduate occupation but there has also been a steady increase in the number of university journalism courses and degrees. This development has been greeted with both scepticism and anxiety by already established journalists, who argue that universities are unsuited to prepare new entrants for th…
The magic that can set you free: The Ideology of Folk and the Myth of the Rock Community
Rock, the saying goes, is ‘the folk music of our time’. Not from a sociological point of view. If ‘folk’ describes pre-capitalist modes of music production, rock is, without a doubt, a mass-produced, mass-consumed, commodity. The rock-folk argument, indeed, is not about how music is made, but about how it works: rock is taken to express (or reflect) a way of life; rock is used by its listeners as a folk music — it articulates communal values, com…
Becoming a journalist: Journalism education and journalism culture
In the last 30 years there has been a transformation in the way in which young people in the UK have become journalists. Not only has journalism become a graduate occupation but there has also been a steady increase in the number of university journalism courses and degrees. This development has been greeted with both scepticism and anxiety by already established journalists, who argue that universities are unsuited to prepare new entrants for th…
Copyright and the music business
For the music industry the age of manufacture is now over. Companies (and company profits) are no longer organised around making things but depend on the creation of rights. In the industry's own jargon, each piece of music represents 'a basket of rights'; the company task is to exploit as many of these rights as possible, not just those realised when it is sold in recorded form to the public, but also those realised when it is broadcast on radio…
Look! Hear! The uneasy relationship of music and television
Television is an essential part of the star-making machinery of the music business and music accompanies nearly all television programmes, and yet the relationship between the two is uneasy. Television does not seem to be an essential part of musical culture and adds little to music aesthetically. Music has had little impact on the form or aesthetics of television. And yet television has certainly had an impact on music and particularly on the me…
Are workers musicians
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Does British Music Still Matter: A Reflection on the Changing Status of British Popular Music in the Global Music Market
This article examines the present status of British popular music. It illustrates the declining global significance of British rock and pop recordings by considering the Mercury music prize (for the ‘best’ British releases each year) and the US sales charts (in which British records rarely now appear). The continuing political assertion that British musical talent is an important source of export earnings is shown to refer to acts (and often reco…
Anglo-America and its discontents
Music industry research: Where now? Where next? Notes from Britain
From 1995-2000 I was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's research programme on Media Economics and Media Culture. One of my tasks was to organise meetings of researchers in the field and to this end I ran a series of seminars at the British Phonographic Institute for people studying the music industry. These seminars were thematic, covering music industry strategies in global media markets; methods for measuring the value of th…
Essay review
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La musique live, ça compte
Les economistes et les sociologues de la musique s’accordent a dire depuis longtemps que le secteur de la musique live ne peut qu’etre desavantage dans la course aux depenses de loisirs, tandis que les produits musicaux et les experiences musicales obtenus par mediation sont toujours plus varies. Ces dix dernieres annees pourtant, la musique live au Royaume-Uni s’affiche comme l’une des parts les plus actives de l’economie de la musique. L’auteur…
Having an impact? Academics, the music industries and the problem of knowledge
This article reflects upon recent interest in knowledge transfer from higher education to the creative industries, using the UK music industries as a case study. It suggests that traditional academic values of impartiality and concern with research methodology can come in to conflict with instrumentalist agendas that see research as valuable only insofar as it fits with pre‐existing worldviews and policy ends. In this setting, knowledge resistanc…
Closing the Circle: A Cultural History of the Rock Revolution
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Une histoire des recherches sur les musiques populaires au Royaume-Uni
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Lives in Music
One of the more annoying aspects of the life of a popular music academic is that we study music that is primarily made and used by people who seem to have no interest at all in what we have to say. Popular musicians and fans are engaged with what we're talking about but not with how we talk about it. When the first volume of our history of live music came out, covering 1950-67 (Frith et al. 2013), I did some non-academic promotional work for it -…
Live Music Exchange
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Debate: Quote Unquote
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Young. Nordic Journal of Youth research
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The Sociology of Rock
The magic that can set you free: The Ideology of Folk and the Myth of the Rock Community
Rock, the saying goes, is ‘the folk music of our time’. Not from a sociological point of view. If ‘folk’ describes pre-capitalist modes of music production, rock is, without a doubt, a mass-produced, mass-consumed, commodity. The rock-folk argument, indeed, is not about how music is made, but about how it works: rock is taken to express (or reflect) a way of life; rock is used by its listeners as a folk music — it articulates communal values, com…
Booklist
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Essay review
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Booklist
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Booklist
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The Sound of the City
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Closing the Circle: A Cultural History of the Rock Revolution
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Critical response
The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals
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Copyright and the music business
For the music industry the age of manufacture is now over. Companies (and company profits) are no longer organised around making things but depend on the creation of rights. In the industry's own jargon, each piece of music represents 'a basket of rights'; the company task is to exploit as many of these rights as possible, not just those realised when it is sold in recorded form to the public, but also those realised when it is broadcast on radio…
Pompi
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Euro pop
The John Logie Baird Centre
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The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Defending Popular Culture from the Populists
Anglo-America and its discontents
The Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards
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Det gode, det dårlige og det ligegyldige - Hvordan man beskytter populærkulturen mod populisterne
I de senere år har man ofte diskuteret spørgsmålet om højkultur over for lavkultur, eller finkultur over for populærkultur. Et ofte frem- ført synspunkt har været, at skellet mellem dem er under nedbryd- ning i det postmoderne samfund (se Ib Bondebjergs artikel i Medie- Kultur nr.9). En anden vinkel har været spørgsmålet om kvalitet: Er det ikke mere muligt at skelne mellem godt og skidt, er alt blevet lige-gyldigt i den pluralistiske kultur? (Se…
Perfect Beat
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Essay Review
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Young. Nordic Journal of Youth research
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Debate: Quote Unquote
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Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music
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 go…
RoJaRo Index
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Utveckla Cultural Studies: (Eller: Håll gruset kvar i maskineriet)
In the last twenty years Cultural Studies have had a remarkable impact on the academy in Britain, inspiring new approaches to research in both the humanities and the social sciences, and yet cultural studies scholars continue to see themselves as under attack from the traditional disciplines. This essay suggests a number of reasons for this, examining, in particular, the problem of cultural studies' "populism", and focusing on the difficult relat…
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