A review by jodiwilldare
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

1.0

I cannot figure out this book's intended audience. This one bored the daylights out of me. It gives a vast, but shallow look at the history of popular music for the past fifty years. As a pop music fan this offered zero new information hence the boredom. So people like me are not the audience. Is this for new fans? Are they gonna pick up a 500-page book that only gives very brief, cursory information? Who knows. This one was a disappointment.