Abstract
Jazztronica is a sub-genre of music that originated in the 1990s which features a combination of musical influences including hip hop, electronic dance music, funk, r&b, disco, modal jazz, and bebop. This paper analyzes the historical, musical, and technological lineage of jazztronica as it pertains to popular culture and styles of music in America and assists in aiding the problem of incomplete academic research within the jazztronica musicology field. The analysis of transcriptions, personal interviews, and academic texts within this paper identifies succinct attributes of the sub-genre jazztronica and determines the magnitude of influences from the aforementioned popular styles of music in chronological order.