World Music: Cultural Traditions

Available on two compact discs, World Music: Cultural Traditions offers music selections from 10 world regions including the United States and Canada; Latin America; Russia and the Eurasian Republics; North Africa and Southwest Asia; sub-Saharan Africa; South, East and Southeast Asia; and Australia and Oceania.. The teacher/student book contains interesting essays for each of the major culture areas, and has listening exercises, with questions, for the students. Teachers can play tracks from the CDs and then refer the students to questions that relate to particular audio tracks.. This is an excellent interactive educational product, and a great platform from which to learn about traditional music from around the world.