World Music: An Exploration

Some Well-Received Global Songs:

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)

• YouTube playlist of all songs

• Spotify playlist of all songs

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• Video of 88 songs from 68 countries in 19 minutes

• 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")

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• Twitter account you can follow for more songs

• Facebook group you can join for discussion

• YouTube channel