Open Culture: A Pandora for the adventurous antiquarian, the highly underrated site Radiooooo gives users streaming music from all over the world and every decade since 1900. While it offers an aural feast, its limited interface leaves much to be desired from an educational standpoint. On the other end of the audio-visual spectrum, clever diagrams like those we’ve featured here on electronic music, alternative, and hip hop show the detailed connections between all the major acts in these genres, but all they do so in silence.
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I love the MusicMap. I am a bit of a nerd about music history; when I was first introduced to jazz, I learned how to play in conjunction with the history of jazz itself. I learned to play styles by learning the evolution of styles and players over time. This map makes an excellent attempt to organize all that that is the evolution of all music over the last century and a half. There is a lot of information, but the infographic is structured in a way that you do not get easily overwhelmed with information-- you can choose to focus on one genre, or try to follow the lines of influence over the decades. I could, and probably will, spend hours poring over this webpage. I am interested to see how this graphic changes as music evolves into the 2020s and when we uncover more about the connections of the music of the past. Music today is forever tied to the music of the past that influenced its evolution, and I think we should look to the music of the past in order to innovate the music of the future.
This is such a cool graphic and a resource to better understand the roots and influences of music. I really like how this whole project started for Kwinten Crauwels. It started with him doing an internet search about the classification of music and their influences, and when he didn’t find what he was looking for he decided to make his own. I think that that is such an interesting concept. When you don’t find something that you want, just make it yourself so that you have it and learn in the process of making it and so that others have the information as well. This extensive web of music is such an interesting tool that can be used for all sorts of music education and even music production. This graphical network inspires me to see how music genres got their roots and how different genres have diverged since and how they could be recombined now to made an interesting blend of sound.
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