Word: frith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Simon Frith's Sound Effect, Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll--as twisted a search as ever found its way into print. Rather than illuminating this appealing subject. Frith's book seems to be an earnest attempt to explain why a lecturer in sociology at the University of Warwick has spent much of his life writing for Creem and New York Rocker. The result is so artificially over wrought and scholarly that it lacks the distinctive spontaneity and accessibility of its subject...
Most of what Frith has to say of interest is lost in pointless self-indulgence. Witness this description of the groups of the "punk vanguard...
Populist assumptions of transparency, Subcultural identity? Does Frith mean to say that the punks (The "punk vanguard," that is) played loud, nasty music? If not, exactly what does he mean...
...FRITH'S CENTRAL THESES. as one rock fan disentangled it, seems reasonable enough: despite the corporate attempt to control the rock markets, the music itself is so bound up in youth's changing attitudes that it will never become merely another commercial product. But against and again, Frith couches his message in such convoluted analysis that it is difficult or a layman to fathom...
...series of interviews Frith conducted with youths in a small English industrial town proves especially thought-provoking. One student's ascertain that "I like what I like, no one changes my opinion about music" illustrates the peculiar resilience of rock and roll that Frith strives to demonstrate...