Magik Circles interview to Simon Frith, how the music's politics works.

As an academic, Simon was a founder member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and a founder editor of the journal Popular Music. As a journalist he was a member of the collective that started the British rock magazine, Let it Rock, was a columnist for the New York Village Voice, and worked as a rock critic for the Sunday Times and The Observer. He also chaired the judges of the Mercury Music prize from its beginnings in 1992 until 2016. After several decades of studying the music industry and youth culture, I am sure his answers will help us to get a better understanding of our music heroes.