Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres — How Boundaries Create Belonging
Genre labels appear to divide music into restrictive categories. Yet without those divisions, many of the communities surrounding music might never have formed.
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Using Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh as its lens, this episode investigates how rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop became social tribes through which musicians and listeners constructed identity.
Sanneh challenges the assumption that transcending genre is necessarily the highest form of…
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