6/9/2023 0 Comments Major labels kelefa sanneh![]() ![]() Hip-hop borrows from other genres and mixes them together until the boundaries are no longer clear or even exist, particularly when it comes to sampling, when wildly different songs are intercut, collaged together, and rapped over. This is clearest in the chapter devoted to hip-hop, the longest in the book and in some ways the most complex. ![]() In doing so, Sanneh provides the reader with a wealth of information, guiding them through these seven separate movements, whilst also showing how they overlap, sometimes in bizarre ways, resulting in odd musical collaborations. Still, Sanneh is clear about his intentions: as an omnivorous musicophile, he seems to be capable of writing about any genre he wants, but these seven provide a rough history of the development of some of the most mainstream music of the past 80 years. Sanneh focuses solely on America, with some trips across to England, and the timeline within which he operates is not long, roughly 1960 to the present day. There are some limitations to the book’s structure. Each chapter loops back to the other genres to show their points of divergence, before travelling forward to explore the roads of sub-genres and musical fads. ![]()
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