''Art into Pop'' is a book by
Simon Frith
Simon Webster Frith (born 1946) is a British sociomusicologist and former rock critic who specializes in popular music culture. He is Tovey Chair of Music at University of Edinburgh.
Career
As a student, he read PPE at Oxford and earned a ...
and Howard Horne, published in 1987. It analyses the integration of art school sensibilities in
popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Fun ...
since the 1950s.
According to the authors, inspiration for the book came when they observed that a "significant number of British pop musicians from the 1960s to the present were educated and first started performing in art schools."
According to academic Barry Faulk, it was "the first study to suggest that
punk rock was art-school inspired, though without addressing the disparity between sociological reality and the rhetoric of punk rock groups."
See also
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Art pop
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Pop art
References
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Art pop
1987 non-fiction books
Collaborative non-fiction books
Music books
Methuen Publishing books