Simon Frith

 

  Simon Frith es una autoridad en las relaciones entre cultura, música e identidad. Profesor de Música en la Universidad de Edimburgo, fue miembro fundador de la International Association for the Study of Popular Music y editor fundador de la revista Popular Music. Es autor de libros de referencia como The Sociology of Rock (1978), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock ‘n’ Roll (1981), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop (1988) o Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1996), así como editor de On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word (1990), Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader (1993) y The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/reid-school-of-music/simon-frith

  Simon Frith is Tovey Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock (1978), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock ‘n’ Roll (1981), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop (1988), and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1996). He has also co-edited key anthologies in the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, including: On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word (Routledge, 1990), Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader (Routledge, 1993), and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/reid-school-of-music/simon-frith