Blue Lineage - Black American Music Timeline

This episode covers early delta blues musicians, early Black radio and the influence of electric technology.  

Topics covered Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Jack L Cooper, Electric Recording Technology, Electric Guitar, Black Radio, Urban Theater Circuit 

This episode covers pre-blues influences, and early blues history.  

Topics covered WC Handy, Mamie Smith, The Great Migration, Minstrel Shows, Race Records and Tin Pan Alley.  

Part 2 of the Blue Lineage Timeline to Womanist Epistemological Research.  

Examples include Mamie Smith, Little Richard, Champion Jack Dupree, Jack L Cooper, Lavern Baker, Charley Patton, Tommy McClennan, Jack the Rapper, and Sylvia Robinson. 

A special series on the connection of the Blue Lineage Timeline with themes of Womanist Epistemological Research. It discusses the background of the timeline, as well as a brief background on womanism and why certain genres were included in the timeline.  

This episode covers hip-hop, to the end of the timeline, the evolution of the DJ & Emcee, the Roland TR-808, and Beat Street.

Artists covered: The Funky 4+1, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, James Brown and Afrika Bambaataa  

Continues discussion of the soul/funk era, the shift of funk into hip-hop, the introduction of hip-hop culture to the commercial industry, and the continued evolution of hip-hop/rap.  

Artists covered: Curtis Mayfield, Sylvia Robinson, DJ Cool Herc & The Sequence. 

This episode elaborates more on the shift from rock n roll to the later genres on the timeline, The Beatles, Motown, and how Freedom Summer connects to the music of the time and a blues revival.   Artists covered: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and Stevie Wonder.  

This episode covers some of the core Rock n Roll innovators and musicians, it also discusses some of the cultural and social issues surrounding the genre.

Topics covered: Big Joe Turner, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, and discussion about the borrowing of music and cultural appropriation.

This episode covers some of the core Rock n Roll innovators and musicians, it also discusses some of the cultural and social issues surrounding the genre.  

Topics covered: Big Joe Turner, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, and discussion about the borrowing of music and cultural appropriation.  

This episode covers the Music Industry's Influence on Genres, R&B, Early Rock n Roll, Black Radio, and the influence of Black DJs.  

Topics covered: R&B Charts, Nat D Williams, Joseph Deighton Gibson, Rudy Toombs, Ruth Brown and BB King.  

This episode covers Electric Blues, Al Benson and continues to explore Jump Blues, early R&B and Rock N Roll influences.

Topics covered Muddy Waters, Al Benson, Roy Brown, T-Bone Walker, and The American Folk Blues Festival.