The Belgians have created an interactive family tree of music genres since 1870
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2023 1:20 pm
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/