When All Around This World says "Everything is a Drum," we mean EVERYTHING. In Vanuatu, in the Pacific Islands, there is a tradition of women wading into the water and using the water -- yes, the water! -- as a drum.

Hawaii’s most beloved song, fit for a Queen.

New Zealand’s national female rugby team, the Black Ferns, powers forward with this stirring haka.

‘Imene tuki are a heavenly hybrid, songs that infuse Church hymns with cascading multi-part harmonies and elements of pre-colonization chants that capture the musical spirit of the Pacific’s Cook Islands….

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….