Interactive Map: Western Music Began In Africa

Interactive Map: Western Music Began In Africa

No doubt the genesis of western dance music is in Africa. The folks at Thomson Blog built an animated map to make the past 100 years of dance music interactive as well as informational. View this rad piece of research here.

(via TB)

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