Geoffrey O'Brien on "Sonata for Jukebox"

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Geoffrey O’Brien grew up in a musical family. His book is “Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life.”  O’Brien tells Steve Paulson that the advent of recording changed our relationship to music - it made the past permanent. And it continues to influence us. The global influence of pop music makes true originality all the more rare.  And we hear lots of examples of pop highlights.