Questlove is more curator than historian, more aficionado than analyst. He remains the inveterate music nerd, always quick to name-drop, share anecdotes and demonstrate the breadth of his incomparable knowledge. But as productive as he has been in recent years, and with such a consistent and sweeping output of work, even Questlove can’t help but occasionally repeat himself ... As it happens with even the best storytellers, Questlove unfortunately—and one hopes unwittingly—at times plagiarizes his own work [from previous books] ... Notwithstanding these pardonable oversights, Music Is History is an entertaining, informative and far-reaching work, meticulously excavating American culture and history with the eye of a seasoned cratedigger.
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