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Art into Pop

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Art into Pop
AuthorSimon Frith, Howard Horne
SubjectArt, popular music
GenreMusicology
Publication date
1987
Media typePrint
Pages206
ISBN9780416415407

Art into Pop is a book by Simon Frith and Howard Horne, published in 1987. It analyses the integration of art school sensibilities in popular music since the 1950s.[1] 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."[2] 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."[3]

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  1. ^ Redhead, Steve (2011). We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light. Edinburgh University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7486-8897-5.
  2. ^ Molon, Dominic; Diederichsen, Diedrich (2007). Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. Museum of Contemporary Art ; New Haven. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-300-13426-1.
  3. ^ Faulk, Barry J. (2013). British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977: The Story of Music Hall in Rock. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4094-9413-3.