5/7/2023 0 Comments Major labels book![]() ![]() ![]() In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a grand reckoning with popular music-as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities.Īs Sanneh unspools the stories of the genres that have defined popular music, the connections build, and big themes accrue momentum: the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and bad, right and wrong. Music is also, of course, a perfectly fine concern in itself, especially in the hands of a writer this brilliant and polyamorous. Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities, shape-shifting across the years, giving us a way to track larger forces and controversies. ![]() An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance, and pop ![]()
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