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Simon Frith was born on 1946, is a British sociomusicologist and critic. Discover Simon Frith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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1946

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

He is Professor Emeritus of Music at University of Edinburgh.

As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a doctorate in sociology from UC Berkeley.

1950

He 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.

1978

He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock (Constable, 1978), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll (Pantheon, 1981), Art into Pop (Methuen, 1987 – written with Howard Horne), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 1996).

In The Sociology of Rock (1978) Frith examines the consumption, production, and ideology of rock music.

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

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

He discusses the differences in perception and use of rock between the music industry and music consumers, as well as differences within those groups: "The industry may or may not keep control of rock's use, but it will not be able to determine all its meanings – the problems of capitalist community and leisure are not so easily resolved."

1987

In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith (1987) argues that popular music has four social functions that account for its value and popularity in society.

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1990

He has also co-edited key anthologies in the interdisciplinary field of popular music studies, including: On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word (Routledge, 1990), Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader (Routledge, 1993), and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge University Press, 2001).

1992

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

His popular music criticism has appeared in a range of popular presses including the Village Voice and The Sunday Times.

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

1999

In 1999, he went to the University of Stirling as Professor of Film and Media.

2002

According to author Bernard Gendron, writing in his 2002 book Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde, Frith "has done the most to lay the foundations for the analysis of rock criticism".

2004

More recently, Frith has edited a four-volume set, Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media & Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2004), and published a collection of his key essays, Taking Popular Music Seriously: Selected Essays (Ashgate, 2007).

Frith (2004, p. 17-9) argued that "'bad music' is a necessary concept for musical pleasure, for musical aesthetics."

He distinguishes two common kinds of bad music; the first is the Worst Records Ever Made type, which includes:

The second type is the "rock critical list", which includes:

He later gives three common qualities attributed to bad music: inauthentic, [in] bad taste (see also: kitsch), and stupid.

He argues that "The marking off of some tracks and genres and artists as 'bad' is a necessary part of popular music pleasure; it is a way we establish our place in various music worlds. And 'bad' is a key word here because it suggests that aesthetic and ethical judgements are tied together here: not to like a record is not just a matter of taste; it is also a matter of argument, and argument that matters."

(p. 28)

2006

In 2006, he took up his last post, Tovey Chair of Music at the University of Edinburgh, from which he retired and was appointed Professor Emeritus in 2017.

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

2017

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