The Belgians have created an interactive family tree of music genres since 1870

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Belgian Quinten Krauels & a team of developers have created an interactive music encyclopedia MusicMap for seven years. It contains extensive data on the evolution of about 200 musical genres over the period from 1870 to 2016.

The official name of the project sounds like "Genealogy & history of popular music from the beginning to the present (1870-2016)". MusicMap was created by two brothers - an architect-visualizer & a programmer. Quinten Krauels, who came up with the idea of creating, says that he really wanted to find a thematic site dedicated to all musical genres, but couldn't do it. Not finding one on the Internet, he decided to create his own, which took seven years to develop. First, the Belgian studied data visualization to make the family tree look more visual and understandable to users.

The site is designed in the form of a diagram, which is made up of the main musical directions. Genres are connected to each other by six types of chain lines. If you click on one of them, you can read the history of its origin, the main features and listen to a playlist of ten iconic songs. Here's the link: https://www.musicmap.info/

Using the mouse, you can scale the graph & find out information about the subgenres that were influenced by one direction or another, and see the existing connections between them. In December 2018, American developer Glenn McDonald created the site Every Noise at Once, which gives opportunity to get acquainted with more than 1300 musical genres & find out what style of music a particular artist belongs to.