Kelefa Sanneh

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Kelefa Sanneh
Born
Kelefa T. Sanneh

1976 (age 47–48)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Nationality
Occupations

Kelefa T. Sanneh (born 1976) is a British-born American journalist and music critic. From 2000 to 2008, he wrote for The New York Times, covering the rock and roll, hip-hop, and pop music scenes.[1] Since 2008 he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.[2] Sanneh published Major labels: A history of popular music in seven genres in 2021.

Early life

Sanneh was born in

isiZulu language at Yale.[5]

Sanneh graduated from

African-American experience with desires to travel into outer space.[8][9]

Career

Sanneh garnered considerable publicity for an article he wrote in the October 31, 2004, edition of

Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'; which do you hear more often?"[14]

Sanneh's review of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love, titled "The Solo Beyoncé: She's No Ashanti", published on July 6, 2003, in the New York Times,[15] has garnered a cult following, with the headline circulating on the internet over the years as a meme.[16]

Before covering music for the Times, Sanneh was the deputy editor of Transition, a journal of race and culture, based at the

The Source; Rolling Stone; Blender; The Village Voice; Man's World; Da Capo Best Music Writing
in 2002, 2005, and 2007; and newspapers around the world.

Sanneh wrote the "Project Trinity," which appeared in The New Yorker's April 7, 2008, edition, to give context to the controversial comments of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who was Barack Obama's pastor. The article provides a historical context of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama's church, and to Wright, the former pastor of Trinity.

In 2008, he left The New York Times to join The New Yorker as a staff writer.[17] As of 2009, Sanneh lived in Brooklyn.[3]

Sanneh's book, Major labels: A history of popular music in seven genres, was published by

Penguin Press in October, 2021.[18]

Bibliography

Main article: Kelefa Sanneh bibliography
  • Major labels : a history of popular music in seven genres. New York: Penguin Press. 2021.

Notes

  1. ^ Kelefa Sanneh | Articles, The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Contributors | Kalefa Sanneh", The New Yorker.
  3. ^ a b "Contributors: Kelefa Sanneh". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
  4. ^ a b Bonk, Jonathan J. (October 1, 2003). "The Defender of the Good News: Questioning Lamin Sanneh". Christianity Today.
  5. ^ Micner, Tamara (October 6, 2006). "Zulu program clicks with small group of students". The Yale Herald. Archived from the original on November 29, 2006.
  6. ^ "Welcome from the Director of Studies". Harvard University Department of Comparative Literature. Archived from the original on April 12, 2011.
  7. ^ "Incipient Roadkill". The Harvard Crimson. March 24, 1994.
  8. ^ "Lit Alumni". Department of Comparative Literature. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  9. ^ Sanneh, Kelefa (1998). The Black Galactic: Towards a Greater African America. Harvard University. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  10. ^ James Houston, "Rockism of Ages", First Call, Vol. V, No. 7, November 15, 2004.
  11. ^ Ducker, Eric (October 5, 2015). "Poptimism's Unlikely Reign". The Fader. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  12. ISSN 1091-2339
    . Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  13. ^ Loss, Robert (August 10, 2015). "No Apologies: A Critique of the Rockist v. Poptimist Paradigm". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  14. ^ a b Sanneh, Kelefa (October 31, 2004). "The Rap Against Rockism". The New York Times.
  15. ^ "The Solo Beyoncé She's No Ashanti".
  16. ^ Gilmer, Marcus (October 29, 2021). "Happy anniversary to the greatest Beyonce headline of all time". Mashable. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  17. ^ Koblin, John (March 4, 2008). "Kelefa Sanneh, Ariel Levy Join New Yorker". New York Observer. Archived from the original on December 4, 2009. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
  18. ^ Williams, John (September 30, 2021). "Why Write About Pop Music? 'I Like When People Disagree About Stuff.'". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2021.

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