Taking Popular Music Seriously/
Frith,Simon
- England: Ashgate Pub Co, 2007.
- 343
Youth and music -- The magic that can set you free: the ideology of folk and the myth of the rock community -- Rock and sexuality (with Angela McRobbie) -- Afterthoughts -- Formalism, realism and leisure: the case of the punk -- Art vs. technology: the strange case of popular music -- The industrialisation of popular music -- Playing with real feeling: making sense of jazz in Britain -- The suburban sensibility in British rock and pop -- The discourse of world music -- Pop music -- Look! hear! the uneasy relationship of music and television -- Music and everyday life -- Why do songs have words? -- Hearing secret harmonies -- Towards an aesthetic of popular music -- Adam Smith and music -- Music and identity -- What is bad music?