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9780674661967
"A learned, wide-ranging, often brilliant investigation of pop music aesthetics from a sociological perspective, and of pop music sociology from an aesthetic perspective.... [T]his is an impressive and entertaining book, one that deserves crossover success among critics and listeners. Resoundingly discrediting the old saw that about tastes there is no disputing, [Frith] demonstrates how deeply the manner in which we dispute our tastes is bound up with our identities and our communities."Frith, Simon is the author of 'Performing Rites On the Value of Popular Music', published 1998 under ISBN 9780674661967 and ISBN 0674661966.
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