MigrationApril 5, 2024
Migration, Movement, and Sound Drift
How the Great Migration physically moved blues—and changed it—without anyone planning to.
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EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE
Listen between the tracks
What was lost, altered, or never properly recorded in early blues history—and why that matters now. Not a music class. Not a history lesson. This is about how culture gets edited, who decides, and what survives by accident.
TechnologyMarch 10, 2024
Technology as a Filter
How early recording limits, equipment bias, and studio economics shaped what blues became.
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GeographyFebruary 20, 2024
Places That No Longer Exist
Studios, juke joints, boarding houses, train stops—mapped, photographed, and erased.
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HistoryJanuary 15, 2024
Uncredited Labor & Silent Contributors
Session players, writers, arrangers, and fixers who shaped the sound but never got their names printed.
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