A review by kleonard
Music Is History by Ben Greenman, Questlove

5.0

I loved this trippy, detailed, passionate book about Questlove's journey through music and major world events. Every chapter offers fresh commentary on songs and artists and producers, noting connections I'd never known about and making a lot of songs make so much more sense. I'd happily put music students of any genre in a classroom with Questlove and let him teach how music is history and how music history is an enormous ever-changing web of singers and songwriters and arrangers and experts in every single genre all contributing to sounds t hat transmit meaning.