CREEMEDIA
Are you ready for a graduate course at the college of musical knowledge? Does the academic language of sociology coupled to a fan’s love of the big beat sound like a tantalizing framework for yet another history of rock ’n’ roll? Does the appearance of footnotes make you want to throw a hefty tome out the window and brain an unsuspecting passer-by?
CREEMEDIA
Pithy Frith Froth Follows Forth
SOUND EFFECTS: YOUTH, LEISURE, AND THE POLITICS OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL
by Simon Frith (Pantheon)
by Toby Goldstein
Are you ready for a graduate course at the college of musical knowledge? Does the academic language of sociology coupled to a fan’s love of the big beat sound like a tantalizing framework for yet another history of rock ’n’ roll? Does the appearance of footnotes make you want to throw a hefty tome out the window and brain an unsuspecting passer-by? Those who fearlessly answered yes to the first two questions and claim to be unfazed by pages of nagging little references stand to gain a valuable perspective on the longevity of Anglo-American bop from professor/CREEM writer Simon Frith’s painstaking study.