Art into Pop

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.

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