Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

According to Simon Frith pop music is produced " as a matter of enterprise not art ", is " designed to appeal to everyone " and " doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste ".

* Frith, Simon ( 2004 ) Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Routledge.

* The Archers Archives ( 2010 ) by Simon Frith & Chris Arnot ISBN 978-1-84990-013-3

Others included Camillo Renato ( 1540 ) Mátyás Dévai Bíró ( 1500 – 1545 ) Michael Servetus ( 1511 – 1553 ) Laelio Sozzini ( 1562 ) Fausto Sozzini ( 1563 ) the Polish Brethren ( 1565 onwards ) Dirk Philips ( 1504 – 1568 ) Gregory Paul of Brzezin ( 1568 ) the Socinians ( 1570 – 1800 ) John Frith ( 1573 ) George Schomann ( 1574 ) Simon Budny ( 1576 )

Simon Frith notes that pop and rock music are closely associated with gender ; that is, with conventions of male and female behaviour.

" — quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith ( 1978, ISBN 0-09-460220-4 ).

In 1985 Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan M. Leslie and Uta Frith published research which suggested that children with autism do not employ a theory of mind, and suggested that children with autism have particular difficulties with tasks requiring the child to understand another person's beliefs.

* Frith, Simon, Popular music: critical concepts in media and cultural studies, Volume 4, London: Routledge, 2004.

Simon Frith is a British sociomusicologist, and former rock critic, who specializes in popular music culture.

* Frith, Simon ( 1978 ).

* Frith, Simon.

* Frith, Simon ( 1996 ).

* " Online exchange with Simon Frith " at rockcritics. com

Simon Frith describes three art worlds present in the music industry: the art music world, folk music world, and commercial music world.

" Sociologist Simon Frith asserts that the mod subculture had its roots in the 1950s beatnik coffee bar culture, which catered to art school students in the radical bohemian scene in London.

The term was used by sociologists Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie in 1978 to point to the contrast between male dominated sub-culture of cock rock which was " aggressive, dominating and boastful " and the more feminised teenybop stars of pop music.

Much of that progress was down to tyre development from Bridgestone coupled with significant improvements in aerodynamics and handling ( overseen by Simon Phillips and Richard Frith respectively ).

Simon Frith ( 2004, p. 17-9 ) argues that, "' bad music ' is a necessary concept for musical pleasure, for musical aesthetics.

* Frith, Simon.

* Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock ' n ' Roll by Simon Frith ( 1981 )

* On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word by Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin ( 1990 )

Auslander and several other scholars such as Simon Frith and Grossberg argue that pop music is often depicted as an inauthentic, cynical, " slickly commercial " and formulaic form of entertainment.

Simon Frith's analysis of the history of popular music from the 1950s to the 1980s has been criticized by B. J. Moore-Gilbert, who argues that Frith and other scholars have over-emphasized the role of " rock " in the history of popular music by naming every new genre using the " rock " suffix.

On 26 January 1926, Baird repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London.

* Frith Street where John Logie Baird first demonstrated television in his laboratory, now the location of Bar Italia.

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council between 10 pm and 4 am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area.

The busiest location was Old Compton Street between the junctions with Dean and Frith Street, which experienced ' medium ' levels of traffic for four of the six hours of the survey, including between 2 am and 4 am.

* 2001 Frith Street Gallery, London

* A plaque for John Logie Baird marks where he gave the first public demonstration of television in 22 Frith Street, Westminster, W1D 4RP

* Frith Street

Night-time traffic surveys carried by Westminster Council ( www3. westminster. gov. uk / docstores /.../ SOHO_ENTS_SPG_july_2006. pdf ) between 10pm and 4am indicate that Old Compton Street, Dean Street, and Frith Street experienced the highest levels of traffic within the Soho area.

The busiest location was Old Compton Street between the junctions with Dean and Frith Street, which experienced ‘ medium ’ levels of traffic for four of the six hours of the survey, including between 2am and 4am.

Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller.

Streets running off of the square, from north clockwise, are Soho Street, Sutton Row, Greek Street, Batemans Buildings, Frith Street and Carlisle Street.

* Ronnie Scott's, Frith Street, London, 1959 – present.

She also shows with Frith Street Gallery, London.

John Frith was condemned to death for his views on the eucharist: he denied the real presence.

** John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr ( d. 1533 )

Tyndale may have met Thomas Bilney and John Frith whilst there.

* July 4 – John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr ( b. 1503 )

* John Frith – Protestant priest and martyr

1976 saw Bailey form Company, an ever-changing collection of like-minded improvisors, which at various times has included Anthony Braxton, Tristan Honsinger, Misha Mengelberg, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Beresford, Steve Lacy, Johnny Dyani, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Kaiser, John Zorn, Buckethead and many others.

In 1857 John Sheepshanks gifted 233 paintings, mainly by contemporary British artists, and a similar number of drawings to the museum with the intention of forming a ' A National Gallery of British Art ', a role since taken on by Tate Britain ; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche.

Among the best-known individuals to be executed by burning were Jacques de Molay ( 1314 ), Jan Hus ( 1415 ), St. Joan of Arc ( 30 May 1431 ), Savonarola ( 1498 ) Patrick Hamilton ( 1528 ), John Frith ( 1533 ), William Tyndale ( 1536 ), Michael Servetus ( 1553 ), Giordano Bruno ( 1600 ) and Avvakum ( 1682 ).

" This was answered by John Frith in A Disputacion of Purgatorie.

More had begun the controversy with John Frith, and Rastell joined him in attacking the Protestant writer, who, says John Foxe ( Actes and Monuments, ed.

* William Powell Frith, John Leech: His Life and Work ( 1891 )

Here he became friends with John Frith and William Tyndale, and became a member of the group of humanist theologians that met at the White Horse Tavern-a group that included the future Lutherans Edward Fox and Robert Barnes, and the arch-conservative Stephen Gardiner.

* Frith family ( Ireland ): The family of John Frith, Protestant martyr, thought to have been using the motto as far back as the 16th century.

John Frith is the earliest entry in Burke's list of the Frith family.

The property was then lost to the crown around 1790 when the incumbent Earl was supplanted by George III with a John " Frith " whose surname was to be that of the village.

Chadbourne has worked with numerous artists including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Carla Bley Band, Paul Lovens, Toshinori Kondo, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, Turbonegro, They Might Be Giants, Sun City Girls, Violent Femmes, Aki Takase, Walter Daniels, Kevin Blechdom, Biff Blumfumgagnge, Zu and Jimmy Carl Black.

Gosfield's compositions have been performed internationally by The Bang on a Can Allstars, Agon Orchestra, Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith, Felix Fan, Roger Kleier, Blair McMillen, William Winant, the FLUX Quartet, the Miami String Quartet, The Silesian String Quartet, So Percussion, Talujon Percussion, Newband ( on the Harry Partch instruments ) and many others, at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, ISCM World Music Days, Bang on a Can Marathon, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musique Actuelle, Wien Modern, OtherMinds, Spoleto Festival USA, Company Week, Taktlos, and three " Radical New Jewish Culture " festivals curated by John Zorn.

Parker has recorded a large number of albums both solo or as a group leader, and has recorded or performed with Peter Brötzmann ( including Brötzmann's epochal Machine Gun in 1968 and Michael Nyman's " Waltz in F " ( 1981 )), John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Keith Rowe, Joe McPhee, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, Ikue Mori, Cyro Baptista, Milford Graves, George Lewis, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Dave Holland, Sylvie Courvoisier, and many others.