Why and how did they get to have this importance?

You have been asked by a start-up streaming service to write a 350-word blog post and construct an annotated Youtube/Spotify playlist of 10-15 songs revolving around various artists, groups, producers, and/or record labels that you consider to be definitive and central to the evolution of your genre of expertise.You can therefore construct a monumental playlist drawing on the changes solidified by cannonical figures of your genre world, you can construct an insurgent playlist drawing on more peripheral figures that nonetheless held massive influence on the genre, or make a playlist tracing collaboration between cannonical figures, the periphery, or even those artists completely outside the genre world.Drawing from this playlist, the company insists that your blogpost must offer a compelling, precise, and clear evidence-based argument as to the cultural-historical significance of your selections to the genre and how they helped push the genre forward. In other words, the executives want to distill “good taste” and “cultural knowledge” for their customers when they listen to your annotated playlist and read the accompanying blogpost. They want to compete with Spotify’s collaboration with Genius and provide expert commentary rather than rely on Genius’ crowd-sourcing to provide a historical narrative for your genre. Your playlist can therefore cover the general evolution across multiple periods, a more in-depth look at collaboration/influence within a particular decade or historical moment, or more generally point to all the past influences that come to define the emergence of your genre.Your assignment is to (1) create the playlist on youtube or spotify (the 2 services I have access to), list the tracks on a separate document and add 1-3 sentences of description and justification of selection per track, and (2) follow it with a minimum 350-word blogpost that puts these songs in relation to one another, describing histories of collaboration, influence, fan reception, etc. and how these selections changed, contributed to, or were consumed by the genre’s conventions.Questions To Think With:Which songs, albums, producers, labels, collaborations have particular cultural-historical significance for your genre of expertise? Why and how did they get to have this importance?Who did they influence? Who did they draw their own influence from? Are they still cited? (The Website WhoSampled.com might be a key tool) Why might certain past influences be downplayed and others celebrated explicitly? How deep into the past can you draw your genre’s roots?Which producer’s or labels’ sound came to define the aesthetic zeitgeist of your genre of expertise? How is this contested construction captured through the playlist? Who rebelled? Who fell in line? Who constructed negotiated relationships and how?Which albums have been celebrated as masterpieces by fans? Which songs have been considered flops? Who has been called a sell out and why?