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National Geographic launches music initiative.


National Geographic has created a music initiative that offers consumers music from around the world. National Geographic World Music showcases international artists and musical performances in an interactive and immersive online environment.

National Geographic World Music offers music by different artists, regions and genres. The site also provides rich context for music through National Geographic's unique assets that include videos, maps, photos and features from its magazines, and other editorial platforms. Searches are enabled via artist, genre genre (zhän`rə), in art-history terminology, a type of painting dealing with unidealized scenes and subjects of everyday life. Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized , country and region.

The website will feature the best artists, innovative music and emerging trends worldwide, allowing users a comprehensive experience. It will also feature guest DJs and their recommended play lists. With partner Calabash calabash

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, National Geographic World Music makes thousands of tracks available for discovery, as well as for purchase at 99 cents per MP3 download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. . Other strategic partners include LinkTV for video, and Afropop Worldwide Afropop Worldwide is a radio program which presents the musics of Africa and the African diaspora. The program is produced by Sean Barlow for World Music Productions in Brooklyn, New York.  and Global Rhythm for editorial and curatorial cu·ra·tor  
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For more information, visit www.worldmusic.national geographic.com.
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Title Annotation:www.worldmusic.national geographic.com
Publication:American Music Teacher
Article Type:Brief article
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Date:Oct 1, 2006
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