Browse all articles on world music genres, instruments, festivals, artists, and cultural traditions from around the globe.
From Lagos nightclubs to global festival stages, Afrobeat fused jazz, funk, and Yoruba tradition into one of the 20th...
Read MorePart harp, part lute, entirely unique — the kora is a 21-string instrument from the Mande people of West Africa,...
Read MoreFounded by Peter Gabriel in 1982, WOMAD brings together artists from across the globe for a celebration of music, arts,...
Read MoreNusrat Fateh Ali Khan transformed the ancient Sufi devotional music of qawwali from a subcontinental tradition into a...
Read MoreHavana is one of the world's great music cities — where son, salsa, jazz, and rumba spill from every doorway. Here's...
Read MoreFrom West African kora to Chinese guqin, Scottish bagpipes to Andean panpipes — the pentatonic scale appears...
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