Review Essay

Simon Frith. Music for Pleasure: Essays in the Sociology of Pop. New York: Routledge, 1988.Simon Frith (ed.) Facing the Music. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, (eds.) On Record: Rock, Pop and The Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.Peter Wicke. Rock Music: Culture, Aesthetics and Sociology (trans. Rachel Fogg). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. [Originally published in German as Rockmusik: Zur Ästhetik und Soziologie eines Massenmediums. Leipzig: Reclam, 1987][Record]

  • Will Straw