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Major Labels
A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
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Major Labels
A comprehensive and celebratory journey through the history of popular music, from the former New York Times music critic.
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From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a career's worth of knowledge, he explores the tribes music forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns.
This is a book to shock and awe the deepest music nerd, and at the same time to work as a heady gateway drug for the uninitiated.
'Kelefa Sanneh has achieved the impossible. Major Labels somehow manages to unspool everything you need to know about 50 years of music, but more impressively, he makes you care about all of it. Even the stuff you don't care about. It's funny, it's personal, and as a piece of writing the book borders on poetry' - David Letterman
'Entertaining, diligent ... His observations are always fresh and thought-provoking, and presented with clarity and wit' - Mojo
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Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh has received praise for its comprehensive and elegantly written history of popular music. Critics highlight its insightful retelling of rock and pop narratives, combined with Sanneh's open-hearted appreciation for diverse genres. The book is noted for its engaging prose, personal reflections, and its ability to make complex musical histories accessible and compelling to a wide audience.
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ISBN: 9781838855949
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 328g
Pages: 496
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About the Author
Kelefa Sanneh has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2008, when he left his position at the New York Times, where he had been the pop-music critic since 2002. Previously, he was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture based at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, at Harvard University. His writing has also appeared in a number of magazines and a handful of books, including Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z, a Library of America Special Publication, and Da Capo Best Music Writing (2002, 2005, 2007, and 2011).
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