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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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