Major Labels A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres 1st Edition by Kelefa Sanneh ISBN 0525559604 9780525559603

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ISBN 10: 0525559604

ISBN 13: 9780525559603 

Author: Kelefa Sanneh 

One of Oprah Daily’s 20 Favorite Books of 2021• Selected as one of Pitchfork‘s Best Music Books of the Year

“One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal

An 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&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop

Kelefa 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 Major Labels, 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.
 
Sanneh 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 hero’s, and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes, the best popular music isn’t 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, Major Labels pays in full.

Table of contents:

1 Rock

• The Kingdom of Rock ‘n’ Roll

• Abunchanoise

• Less Monstrous and More Glamorous

• The Edge of Wuss Cliff

• Alternative Everywhere

• Heavy Metal Rules

• The Power of Evil

• Cock Rock

• Counter-Countercultural

• The Opposite of Noise

• Confessional

• Making Progress

• Old-Time Rock ‘n’ Roll

2 R&B

• An Exclusive Music

• Race Records

• Soul Music Is Ours

• Selling Soul

• Ain’t Nothing to This Disco

• The Comforts of Crossover

• The Other Black Music

• Shame and Shamelessness

• Guilty

• Deplorable

• A Rebirthing Process

• Mea Culpa

3 Country

• At Its Purest

• What Is Country Music?

• Absolutely No Hollering

• A Revolt, a Revival, and a Sales Pitch

• Make Country Country Again

• The Horseshit Rebellion

• Suburbs and Sippy Cups

• Good Luck on Your New Venture

• Where Are Your Guts?

• Only in America

• The White Experience

• What Makes You Country

• What’s Right with the Format

4 Punk

• Converted

• Incoherent and Inescapable

• Rock ‘n’ Roll at Its Finest

• Punk Explosion

• Punk Politics

• Tougher Than Punk

• An Incantation

• Feasting on Crumbs

• Stubborn Purists

• The Opposite of Punk

• Hipsters Everywhere

5 Hip-Hop

• Rap Music Don’t Have to Teach You Anything

• The (New) Sound of Young America

• Music in Every Phrase

• Making Records Out of Records

• Street-Corner Rhymes

• I’m Not a Rapper

• The Real Face of Rap

• Raging Sexism

• Self-Conscious

• Ambition and Hunger

• Escape from New York

• Serious Rapping

• Your Voice Too Light

• Mixed Up

6 Dance Music

• What Else is Music For?

• One Big Mix

• Very Much Alive

• Party Monsters

• Different Worlds

• The Upward Spiral

• Get Lost

7 Pop

• Pop Revolution

• The Monster with Seven Letters

• The Triumph of Poptimism

• The Most Popular Records in the Country?

• Pepsodent Smiles

• The Perils of (New) Pop Stardom

• Pure Pop Music

• You’ll Grow Out of It

• The End of Taste

• How Can Anyone Listen to That Stuff?

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