Performing Rites Quotes

“For fans, whose musical values don’t matter so much, or, rather, matter in different ways, with different consequences, trading pop judgments is a way to “flirt and fight.”
― Simon Frith, Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music

“Cultural judgments, in other words, aren’t just subjective, they are self-revealing, and to become another person, to fake ourselves for whatever reason, means having to pretend to like things in which we find nothing valuable at all”
― Simon Frith, Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music