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Bad Music
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Christopher Washburne
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the no
Bad Music
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Christopher J. Washburne
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-11 - Publisher: Routledge

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Why are some popular musical forms and performers universally reviled by critics and ignored by scholars-despite enjoying large-scale popularity? How has the no
Bad Boy of Music
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: George Antheil
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Samuel French Trade

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Antheil's 'mechanistic' works made him the rage of the 1920s Parisian artistic community and 'bad boy' of the music scene.
Taking Popular Music Seriously
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Simon Frith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. T
Critique of Pure Music
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: James O. Young
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-09 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Why do we value music? Many people report that listening to music is one of life's most rewarding activities. In Critique of Pure Music, James O. Young seeks to