World Music: An Exploration
At Carnegie Mellon University, I taught a class about popular international music from every country in the world. Here are some links to materials from the course that will help you discover and listen to songs from the course (since many of them are really good).
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Masterlist of all songs (plus a short, objective description of each)
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Video of 26 songs from 26 countries in 5 minutes (the most popular songs in the video above according to a survey of 20 "experts")
Since my appearances on Cut, I've gained hundreds of followers on Spotify, notably for my multilanguage playlist (left). I've also created playlists for:
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One song from each country in the world (including inhabited US territories)
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Trigger Celebrates: Black Music Month, which I made on behalf of TriggerXR, featuring music in many genres with a few songs each from every black-majority country on Earth.
I continue to create opportunities for people to discover new music, notably through the Trigger Song Contest, an event I host at TriggerXR every two weeks where employees submit one song each in a common theme, everyone votes for their favorite, and the winner gets to pick the theme of the next edition. I also run the Genrevision Song Contest annually, in which participants are randomly assigned ten microgenres of music, submit one song that fits into at least one of those genres, and everyone votes on which song is the best.