Major Labels - A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

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.

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).

Product details

• Authors: Kelefa Sanneh
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781838855949
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-594-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Pop, rock; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, History of Music, Pop Music, Popular Music