Jazzy blues in Guam….

In class we explore New Calendonia’s Kanak “pilou dance….”

The term “Melanesian music,” used in the broadest sense, covers a wide range of traditional styles ranging from the multiple genres of tribal songs found in Papua New Guinean singsings to Australia’s Aboriginal didgeridoo drones, from Solomon Islanders’ polyphonic pan pipes to Fijian lali drumming….

During the 1990’s Papua New Guinea’s locally beloved singer/songwrtier George Telek became an international star when he seamlessly blended rock, reggae, stringband music and indigenous Papuan three-part harmonies on the album “Serious Tam….”

Yothu Yindi sings, “Well I heard it on the radio, and I saw it on the television….”

“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….