Stylistic Transformation: How Blues evolved into Funk
How does one musical style or idiom become something else? What does it sound like when musical ideas are actively in collaboration within a culture?
In this episode we take a look at American blues music, and how it evolved through the 20th century from folk blues all the way to a seminal new style, funk. The conversation also touches on the emergence and development of recorded music, along with social issues that are part of the story, too.