Simon Webster Frith OBE (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Professor Emeritus...
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is the brother of Simon Frith, a music critic and sociologist, and Chris Frith, a psychologist at University College London. Frith was born in Heathfield...
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selected Quatro as one of twelve Queens of British Pop. In August 1974, Simon Frith spotted a problem with the formula that was working outside the US, saying...
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the present day. Cock rock is a musical genre. Philip Auslander uses Simon Frith's description of cock rock characteristics: [C]ock-rock performance means...
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Commodification of Image – Production of a Pop Idol. One of his sources was Simon Frith, a sociologist and rock critic, and chair of the Mercury Music Prize...
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and rock as opposites. Auslander and several other scholars, such as Simon Frith and Grossberg, argue that pop music is often depicted as an inauthentic...
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commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. According to British musicologist Simon Frith, pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", and is "designed...
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"aggressively avant-garde" or "pretentiously progressive". Musicologists Simon Frith and Howard Horne described the band managers of the 1970s punk bands...
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tradition embodied by art rock or progressive rock. Sociomusicologist Simon Frith has distinguished the appropriation of art into pop music as having a...
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an audience estimated at 400 million. According to sociomusicologist Simon Frith, the international broadcast served to confirm "the Beatles' evangelical...
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