ABSTRACT
Frith is hinting that producers in the pop and dance genres have a significantly different role to music producers in other music genres. Pop music production can easily be overlooked in the world of academia and compared with other music genres, such as rock, dance, classical and jazz, pop is often relegated to the field of sociology or cultural studies rather than taken as an example of good music production or performance. Increasingly, pop production is achieved remotely, with producers and musicians in their own recording studios, working online, exchanging files and ideas by email or large file download sites, such as Dropbox. Generally, the production team will begin by uploading files of a basic backing track, with guide vocals, to a set of session musicians, keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, and so on. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
