Major labels, Sanneh, Kelefa

Автор: Sanneh Kelefa
Название: Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
ISBN: 0525559612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525559610
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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 heroes, 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.

Автор: Sanneh, Kelefa
Название: Untitled History Of Popular Music, From
ISBN: 0525559590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525559597
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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--including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop--woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyonc , and beyond.

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. Music is also, of course, a perfectly fine concern in itself, especially in the hands of a writer this brilliant and polyamorous. In Generic Music Book, Sanneh distills pretty much everything he knows and thinks about music and musicians into a sort of grand summa--which is a slightly grandiose label for a book this absurdly fun.

Nothing human is alien to Sanneh, no subgenre too narrow a crevice for him to find a purchase. As he unspools his big canvas across the important genres that have defined popular music, the connections build, and big themes accrue momentum--the tension between mainstream and outsider, between authenticity and phoniness, between--argument without end--good and bad. 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. 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. In his hands, we understand ever more clearly music's place as a powerful tool for human connection--and also a powerful tool for human antagonism. 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. It also stands as a brilliant fever graph of American cultural history over the last half century. The opposite of a modest proposal, Generic Music Book takes in the whole extraordinary groaning board of popular music, and it pays in full.

Автор: Azumah John, Sanneh Lamin
Название: The African Christian and Islam
ISBN: 1907713972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781907713972
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 44130.00 T
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