Hi,
Does anyone have links to sites that show time line charts of the blues musicians, especially pre-60's ?
Thanks if available,
RC
History chart of the Blues?
Re: History chart of the Blues?
Don't know if these are any help, but here goes;
http://www.bluesnexus.com/history.php
http://www.bluescentric.com/history/text_timeline.php
http://www.bluessearchengine.com/bluesi ... story.html
This is a link that ElMano gave;
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blues-tr ... 59138?mt=8
too bad it works on iPhone or iPad, but as you can see there's a timeline section on the first screenshot.
Here's the www pages and I didn't find the timeline there;
http://www.msbluestrail.org/
Pena
http://www.bluesnexus.com/history.php
http://www.bluescentric.com/history/text_timeline.php
http://www.bluessearchengine.com/bluesi ... story.html
This is a link that ElMano gave;
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blues-tr ... 59138?mt=8
too bad it works on iPhone or iPad, but as you can see there's a timeline section on the first screenshot.
Here's the www pages and I didn't find the timeline there;
http://www.msbluestrail.org/
Pena
"The blues is a low down achein' chill" Robert Johnson
Re: History chart of the Blues?
Thanks Pena,
There are some very nice tributes here. I think more what I am looking for is something more scholarly. If this doesn't exist online, maybe it would be a good graduate school project for someone. (that's what I do when I can't find something, give it to grad students as projects!) . I'll have to think about what school to put this out to and how to make it attractive to a student... Blues are typically a topic only covered briefly in professional musics schools. Lomax seems to be an exception to the high-education/blues gap. Is Ted Gioia still alive? Anyone have a contact address for him?
Gratefully,
RC
There are some very nice tributes here. I think more what I am looking for is something more scholarly. If this doesn't exist online, maybe it would be a good graduate school project for someone. (that's what I do when I can't find something, give it to grad students as projects!) . I'll have to think about what school to put this out to and how to make it attractive to a student... Blues are typically a topic only covered briefly in professional musics schools. Lomax seems to be an exception to the high-education/blues gap. Is Ted Gioia still alive? Anyone have a contact address for him?
Gratefully,
RC
Re: History chart of the Blues?
Not exactly a history, but maybe of some help:
http://12bar.de/styles.php
You're right, Blues is often only seen as a sub-genre of Jazz, which is plain wrong...
http://12bar.de/styles.php
You're right, Blues is often only seen as a sub-genre of Jazz, which is plain wrong...
Re: History chart of the Blues?
Ah yes, thanks 12bar. That chart popped nicely into excel. It is an interesting approach to start by sub-genres, though I can see there will be problems or overlaps down the line - like is JLHooker to be placed in pure Delta or Detroit or what about when he incorporates british blues in later pieces? I don't know much about the blues history, but suspect this could get complex.
I'm now wondering if (given excel records) a time line, one per record (excel data line or row) for each blues person, and maybe a record (excel data field lines or rows) of a specific color coding underneath for the type of blues they were playing during any given period/dates. ha ah, probably a lot of rainbows for all of them, but this at least moves in the direction of a timeline that one could look at in a glance and see what people were playing at different times. There could be another row for WHERE they were playing at those times as well.
RC
I'm now wondering if (given excel records) a time line, one per record (excel data line or row) for each blues person, and maybe a record (excel data field lines or rows) of a specific color coding underneath for the type of blues they were playing during any given period/dates. ha ah, probably a lot of rainbows for all of them, but this at least moves in the direction of a timeline that one could look at in a glance and see what people were playing at different times. There could be another row for WHERE they were playing at those times as well.
RC