Stylistic Transformation: How Blues evolved into Funk

Loose Filter Podcast

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.