Simon Frith

Biographic Data

ID3660261
NAMESimon Frith
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMEFrith
SIGNATUREFRITH S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Stirling
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS81
TOTAL CITATIONS161
AUTHOR COUNT77
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX7

  • Postwar Politics, Society and the Folk Revival in England, 1945–65, by Julia Mitchell

    Open AccessSimon FrithARTICLEThe English Historical Review2021

    One of the star turns at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival was the then leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. According to The Guardian his appearance on the Pyramid Stage ‘was one of the most hotly anticipated moments of the weekend’, throughout which crowds could be heard chanting ‘Oh! Jeremy Corbyn!’. Thirty months later his party had its worst general election results for eighty years, losing seats in supposed Labour strongholds incl…

  • What has the BBC ever done for us

    Open AccessFrith, Simon Frith et al.ARTICLEPopular Music2020References: 4

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  • Rock and Sexuality

    Simon FrithCHAPTERTaking Popular Music Seriously2017

    Of all the mass media rock is the most explicitly concerned with sexual expression. This reflects its function as a youth cultural form: rock treats the problems of puberty, it draws on and articulates the psychological and physical tensions of adolescence, it accompanies the moment when boys and girls learn their repertoire of public sexual behaviour. Any analysis of the sexuality of rock must begin with the brute social fact that in terms of co…

  • Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays

    Frith, Simon FrithBOOKTaking Popular Music Seriously2017

    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

    Frith, Simon Frith et al.CHAPTERPop Music and Easy Listening2017

    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

    Open AccessFrith, Simon FrithARTICLEPopular Music2017Cited by: 9References: 1

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  • Art into Pop

    Howard Horne, Simon FrithBOOKArt into Pop2016

  • Live Concert Performance: An Ecological Approach

    Adam Behr, Matt Brennan et al.ARTICLERock Music Studies2016

    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…

  • Living Politics, Making Music: The Writings of Jan Fairley

    Edited By Simon Frith, Ian Christie et al.BOOKLiving Politics, Making Music2016

  • La Nueva Canción Latinoamericana (1984)

    Jan Fairley, Frith et al.CHAPTERLiving Politics, Making Music2016

    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 …

  • The Art of Record Production: An Introductory Reader for a New Academic Field

    Simon Zagorski-Thoma, Katia Isakoff et al.BOOKArt of Record Production2016

    Contents: Introduction, Simon Frith and Simon Zagorski-Thomas Part I Historical Approaches: The lacquer disc for immediate playback: professional recording and home recording from the 1920s to the 1950s, George Brock-Nannestad The sounds of space: studio as instrument in the era of high fidelity, Susan Schmidt Horning No-fi: crafting a language of recorded music in 1950s pop, Albin Zak III The US vs the UK sound: meaning in music production in th…

  • Live Music Exchange

    Open AccessFrith, Simon FrithARTICLEPopular Music2013Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • Jan Fairley

    Open AccessFrith, Simon FrithARTICLEPopular Music2012

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  • “I Tote and I Vote”: Australian live music and cultural policy

    Open AccessShane Homan, Simon FrithARTICLEArts Marketing An International…2011

    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine recent government policies that have had direct and indirect effects upon Australian live music venues. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a review of relevant government policies relating to live music and a case study approach examining live music's role in concepts of the “creative city”. Findings Policy affecting venues remains tied to wider governmental notions of risk management. T…

  • Music and Identity

    Frith, Simon FrithCHAPTERCuestiones de identidad cultural2011

  • Having an impact? Academics, the music industries and the problem of knowledge

    John Williamson, Martin Cloonan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2011Cited by: 3References: 3

    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

    Paul Corrigan, Frith et al.CHAPTERResistance through rituals2010

  • On music as a creative industry

    Frith, Simon Frith et al.CHAPTERCreativity, innovation and the…2009

  • Why music matters

    Open AccessSimon FrithARTICLECritical Quarterly2008

  • Becoming a journalist: Journalism education and journalism culture

    Open AccessFrith, Simon Frith et al.ARTICLEJournalism2007Cited by: 24References: 4

    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…

  • Une histoire des recherches sur les musiques populaires au Royaume-Uni

    Frith, Simon FrithARTICLERéseaux2007Cited by: 2References: 1

    et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit

  • La musique live, ça compte

    Frith, Simon FrithARTICLERéseaux2007Cited by: 4

    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…

  • On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word

    Simon Frith, Andrew GoodwinBOOKOn Record2006Cited by: 3

    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

  • Rock and Popular Music

    Tony Bennett, Simon Frith et al.BOOKRock and Popular Music2005

  • Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions

    Tony Bennett-undifferentiated, Tony Bennett et al.BOOKRock and Popular Music2005