Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays

As a sociologist Simon Frith claims 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 individuals who make up a music world. The collection includes nineteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field, along with an autobiographical introduction.