WORLD MUSIC DAY

Summer is around the corner! Isn’t very exciting?

I asked my friends how we should celebrate the first day of summer on June 21^st but nobody really seemed as excited as I am!

I got the opportunity to explain to my American friends how the first day of summer is important in our culture!

SOME HISTORY...

I found this amazing visualization that was published on the British tour operator Thomson.

This is an interactive map visualizing the evolution of Western music since 1800 and today!

It shows the appearance and the inter-influence of popular genres such as jazz, soul and disco, which were born from multiple sub-movements and musical movements (traditional African music, calypso, Christian hymns, etc.). The map is accompanied with an interactive timeline to see the places and dates of the birth of musical movements; it also gives us the ability to trace some musical genres’ journey.