Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres Play it Loud

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres Play it LoudOne of Oprah Dailys 20 Favorite Books of 2021 Selected as one of Pitchforks Best Music Books of the YearOne of the best books of its kind in decades. The Wall Street JournalAn 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 popKelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time

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at the pivotal time when Guthrie makes his way to New York and writes “This Land Is Your Land

Self-described "black

professional or amateur" (Kirkus Reviews)

prose poems

Whether engrossed in making their own superhero cape

Limited vinyl LP repressing of this classic 1958 album by the jazz icon

By turns revealing

and assorted habitués of the demimonde

provoked and comforted

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and Burroughs’s friend and fellow writer James Grauerholz