Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh

A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

A lively, wide-ranging cultural history that traces how seven central strands of popular music developed—through key artists, shifting audiences, technological change, and the music industry—while exploring recurring tensions between authenticity and commerce, the role of race and regional identity in shaping genres, and how business models and cultural meanings have been remade from the 20th century into the digital era.

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