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A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

By: Kelefa Sanneh

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 popkelefa 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...