Simon Frith - Performing Rites

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Performing Rites On the Value of Popular Music

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Contents

Acknowledgments Part I

Music Talk

1 The Value Problem in Cultural Studies

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First Harvard University Press paperback edition. 1998 Librtlry of Cot/gress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frith, Simon.

Performing rites : on the value of popular music I Simon Frith , p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674 -66195-8 (doth) ISBN 0-674-66196-6 (pbk.) I. Music and society. 2. Popular music-History and criticism. 3. Music- Philosophy and aesthetics. I. Title. ML3795.F738 1996 781.64' 117-