Popular Music: Music and society
- ISBN-10
- 0415332672
- ISBN-13
- 9780415332675
- Series
- Popular Music
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 411
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Simon Frith
Description
Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study
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