Simon Frith

Simon Webster Frith OBE (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist, and former rock critic, who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh. He is the author of 'Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll' (Pantheon, 1981), 'Art into Pop' (Methuen, 1987, with Howard Horne), the collection 'Music for Pleasure' (Routledge, 1988), and 'Performing Rites: The Aesthetics of Popular Music' (Harvard, 1996). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Frith">wikipedia</a> <a href="https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof-simon-frith">eca.ed.ac.uk</a>