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Simon Frith
British sociomusicologist
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Born 1946 · age 80United Kingdom
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Simon Webster Frith is a British sociomusicologist and rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is professor emeritus of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Frith has written a number of sociological analyses of popular music, including The Sociology of Rock (1978) and Performing Rites: On the value of popular music (1996). Frith was the chair of the Mercury Prize from its inception in 1992 until his resignation in 2016.
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