12 Facts About Simon Frith

Simon Webster Frith was born on 1946 and is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture.

Simon Frith is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh.

Simon Frith is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock, Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll, Art into Pop, Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop, and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music.

Simon Frith is the co-author of a three-volume work, The History of Live Music in Britain since 1950, the first volume of which will be published in March 2013 by Ashgate.

Simon Frith has chaired the judges of the Mercury Music Prize since it began in 1992.

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Simon Frith taught in the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick and the English Studies Department at Strathclyde University.

Simon Frith is the brother of guitarist and composer Fred Frith and neuroscientist Chris Frith.

Simon Frith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to higher education and popular music.

Simon Frith explores rock as leisure, as youth culture, as a force for liberation or oppression, and as background music.

Simon Frith argues that rock music is a mass cultural form which derives its meaning and relevance from being a mass medium.

Simon Frith later gives three common qualities attributed to bad music: inauthentic, [in] bad taste, and stupid.

In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith argues that popular music has four social functions that account for its value and popularity in society.