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<p>From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the <i>New York Times</i> and the <i>New Yorker</i>, Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us. Distilling a career''s worth of knowledge, Sanneh explores the tribes music forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns.<br><br>He debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn''t transcendent: it expresses our grudges as well as our hopes, and is motivated by greed as well as inspiration. Throughout, race is a powerful touchstone: just as there''s always been a ''Black'' audience and a ''white'' audience (with some overlap) there is Black music and white music and a whole lot of expropriation.<br><br>This is a book to shock and awe the deep