Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
The American Music Continuum
An interactive atlas traces how American and Caribbean music formed, traveled, and blended across places from 1900 to 2000.
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- Readers exploring American music history through place
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- Dates are treated as approximations, with circles fading in before and out after a sound's likely formation.
Field notes
Visitors can press play, drag the timeline, or select circles; larger circles represent regions, while smaller ones mark genre offshoots. Circles fade around approximate dates because musical forms developed over years, and lines appear as sounds emerge or when selected. The project also includes a zoomed New York view and labels its placement and lineage choices as editorial simplifications.
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●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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