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Major Labels
- Author
- Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrator
- Kelefa Sanneh
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 16 July 2020
- Run Time
- 18 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.
Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there's always been a ‘Black’ audience and a ‘white’ audience, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there is Black music and white music (and some very white music), and a whole lot of confusing of the issue, if not to say expropriation.
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.
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Details
- Author
- Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrator
- Kelefa Sanneh
- Duration
- 18 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 July 2020
- ISBN
- 9781838856243
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Music: styles and genres, Popular music, History of music
Synopsis
From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us, the tribes it forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns.Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there's always been a ‘Black’ audience and a ‘white’ audience, with more or less overlap depending on the moment, there is Black music and white music (and some very white music), and a whole lot of confusing of the issue, if not to say expropriation.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.
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