{"product_id":"major-labels-a-history-of-popular-music-in-seven-genres-paperback","title":"Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKelefa Sanneh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 - Selected as one of \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Music Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eO\u003cb\u003ene of the best books of its kind in decades.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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\u0026amp;B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKelefa 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 \u003ci\u003eMajor Labels\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSanneh 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 \u003ci\u003eisn't\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMajor Labels\u003c\/i\u003e pays in full. \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelefa Sanneh\u003c\/b\u003e has been a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer since 2008, before which he spent six years as a pop-music critic at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eCBS Sunday Morning\u003c\/i\u003e. Previously, he was the deputy editor of \u003ci\u003eTransition\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eShake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z, \u003c\/i\u003e a Library of America Special Publication, and \u003ci\u003eDa Capo Best Music Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (2002, 2005, 2007, and 2011). He lives in New York City with his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100446023987,"sku":"9780525559610","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/clhqNjVFM0dlNUJzN1RmNyt3Tll1dz09.webp?v=1772486051","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/major-labels-a-history-of-popular-music-in-seven-genres-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}