One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one ofPitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year "One of the best books of its kind in decades." —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular musicover the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have definedand dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture,has made