“Bula Maleya” may well be Fiji’s favorite song….

The most formal yet widely adored form of Islamic musical poetry in Yemen — often, if not always, religious in content — is the Yemeni nasheed….

Meet the Palestinian band Sabreen, whose performers traveled a long journey from being “just” fantastic musicians to being both fantastic musicians and internaitonal activists….

Let’s go way down to “Upper Egypt” to make Nubian music with Mohamed Mounir….

Yemen’s influence on folk music of Israel — at the heart of the songs of Yemeni-Israeli musical legends like Ofra Haza — is strong….

If you’re a Saudi musician the daf drum will be your best friend….

Were the decades between World War II and the start of the Lebanese Civil War (1975) the Golden Age of Lebanese pop music…?

Let’s sing with Syria’s Sabah Fakhri….

Rida El Abdallah is one of Iraq’s most popular homegrown pop stars….

After all these years, Googoosh still knows how to wow a crowd….

Richard Hagopian shows us the way to Armenia….

Orhan Gencebay is one of the giants of the Turkish entertainment industry….

Negar Kharkan really knows how to play that Kamancheh….

Let’s join our friends Aba Diop and the Yermande Family, a collective of grand griots from Senegal, to connect the dots between generations of West African music-makers…

In class we “Connect the Dots” with the Lindy Hop….

Flamenco is Spanish high art, a powerful genre of music that developed from the multilingual, multicultural mix of Arabs, Jews, Christians and Romani present in Andalusia in the centuries after the 1492 Spanish “reconquest” of the Iberian Peninsula….

Let’s meet Caliu, violin master of the Romani band, Taraf de Haïdouks….

Baila is a genre of music from Sri Lanka that draws upon infulences you may not expect to find in a South Asian nation — specifically, Caribbean calypso…..

What could be better than four accordion masters performing tejano music…? FIVE!

In a “Calypso War,” two Calypsonians improvise songs in competition against each other to be most clever and entertaining, usually while taking verbal jabs at one another….