More often, popular music has been not merely diverse but divisive, riven by crossover successes and cruel excommunications, rival fan bases and sneering feuds.” “But ‘diversity’ is a rather uninspiring term, conjuring up a polite and static world where people have the serenity to accept one another’s differences. “It is easy enough to acknowledge the evident diversity of popular music,” he opines in the Introduction. A New Yorker staff writer and former New York Times music critic, a veteran of countless concerts and interviews, Sanneh is his own Spotify channel. A similar omnivorous drive fuels Kelefa Sanneh’s magisterial, engrossing debut, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, which serves up, à la carte, his takes on rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance, and pop. The secret to being a great chef, Jacques Pépin observed in his 2003 memoir, The Apprentice, is the willingness to eat anything.
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