Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

About Kelefa Sanneh

Kelefa Sanneh has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2008 when he left his position at the New York Times where he had been the pop-music critic since 2002. Previously he was the deputy editor of Transition a journal of race and culture based at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. His writing has also appeared in a number of magazines and a handful of books including Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z a Library of America Special Publication and Da Capo Best Music Writing (2002 2005 2007 and 2011).