Exhibit
United States
United States music is a collision of African, European, Indigenous, and immigrant streams. Blues, jazz, country, gospel, hip-hop, and rock were forged here and exported worldwide, while regional scenes from Appalachia to New Orleans to Detroit keep rewriting the archive.
Exhibit copy
United States music is a collision of African, European, Indigenous, and immigrant streams. Blues, jazz, country, gospel, hip-hop, and rock were forged here and exported worldwide, while regional scenes from Appalachia to New Orleans to Detroit keep rewriting the archive.
Historical context
United States music is a collision of African, European, Indigenous, and immigrant streams. Blues, jazz, country, gospel, hip-hop, and rock were forged here and exported worldwide, while regional scenes from Appalachia to New Orleans to Detroit keep rewriting the archive. Leading documented genres in this exhibit include Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop, Rock.
Specimen note
The Library of Congress American Folklife Center holds one of the world’s largest public archives of vernacular music recordings.
Genres
- Jazz
- Blues
- Hip-Hop
- Rock
- Country
- R&B