About This Book
An influential writer on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to academic critics, Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subjectβand discloses their place at the center of the aesthetics tha...
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Reading Time Estimates
9h 16m
slow reader
180 WPM
6h 40m
average reader
250 WPM
4h 46m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 100,100 wordsπ
14 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
6 h 40 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
7 h 25 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
11 h 7 min
Audio 2x
5 h 34 min
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- π 14 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
- π14 commutesΒ of 30 min each