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Performing rites : on the value of popular music / Simon Frith.

By: Frith, SimonMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998Description: viii, 352 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780674661967 (pbk.) :; 0674661966 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Popular music -- Social aspects | Music -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.4'84 Summary: Ranging through and beyond the 20th century, 'Performing Rites' puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the impact of popular aesthetics on our lives.
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Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ranging through and beyond the 20th century, 'Performing Rites' puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the impact of popular aesthetics on our lives.

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