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Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres | Paperback

Kelefa Sanneh

Penguin Publishing Group

Music / History & Criticism / Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal / Genres & Styles -
Rock

Published Oct 4, 2022

<> --The Wall Street Journal

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 music, and pop

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. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career's
worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous
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. He explains the history of slow jams, the genius of Shania Twain,
and why rappers are always getting in trouble.
 
Sanneh shows how these genres have been defined by the tension between
mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between good and
bad, right and wrong. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there
have always been Black audiences and white audiences, with more or less
overlap depending on the moment, there has been Black music and white music,
constantly mixing and separating. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises
beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that
sometimes, the best popular music isn't transcendent. Songs express our
grudges as well as our hopes, and they are motivated by greed as well as
idealism; music is a powerful tool for human connection, but also for human
antagonism. This is a book about the music everyone loves, the music everyone
hates, and the decades-long argument over which is which. The opposite of a
modest proposal, Major Labels pays in full. 


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