Simon Frith, a professor of film and media studies at Stirling University, in Scotland, has played a key role since the 1960s in bringing academic and intellectual rigor to popular-music criticism in ...

In the third of a series of occasional interviews with key players in the entertainment industry, the BBC News website speaks to Simon Frith, chairman of the Nationwide Mercury Music award judging ...

Listening to popular music / David Riesman -- The dialogue of courtship in popular song / Donald Horton -- The young audience / Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel -- The golden age / Paul Willis -- Style ...

Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Elena Dolcini speaks to critic, historian and sociologist Simon Frith about the live music experience, critique in the digital age and the place of protest music in a society that thrives on mass ...