| Art into Pop | |
| Author: | Simon Frith, Howard Horne |
| Subject: | Art, popular music |
| Genre: | Musicology |
| Pub Date: | 1987 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 206 |
| Isbn: | 9780416415407 |
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]