blooz | Willie McTell, Robert Wilkins, Leadbelly | At the dawn of recorded music technology, a few fans stuck microphones next to itinerant, often blind, black men and women in the American south. Thank god! |
gospel | Sister O.M. Terrell, Sensational Nightengales, Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, Swan Silvertones, Reverend Martin Babb | Most of the folks compelled to sing music have been compelled by spirit. Gospel is the roots of R&B at least. What a transition! |
jaz | Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum | Witty and often hyperactive. What's not to love? |
rok | Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Fishbone, The Smiths | The energy of youth, mostly white Americans. |
rap | Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Richie Rich | The energy that society channeled through rock left in the eighties and Rap became the strongest musical voice in American culture. |
electronica | Orbital, Off and Gone, The Orb, LTJ Bukem, Bjork | The impulse to manufacture sound that is aesthetic or propulsive wraught electronica. |
wurld | Ali Farka Toure | After all this attention paid to music made mostly in America, shouldn't we listen to music from the rest of the world? |
muzik evolution, muzik links, and eyeneer, of course.
life |
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