Geneological charts and tables
See also list of genres of music and genealogy
Geneological charts or family trees of major musical genres are useful to track the way in which these genres developed over time. Since music can be endlessly broken down into smaller and smaller categories, a geneological chart will usually focus on one genre and its different strains. For instance, jazz is considered to be a genre with many sub-genres, including New Orleans jazz, Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Free Jazz, and Latin Jazz. How these developed out of one another is shown in a genealogical chart, often with major figures or innovators of each sub-genre.
A genealogy may also try to incorporate major genres, such as jazz, rock'n'roll and folk music. The following example of a genealogical chart shows how major genres cross-fertilise across musical boundries, in this case including Cuban, Jamaican and US musical genres.
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