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Maghreb and Nile traditions: Andalusi nuba suites, Gnawa trance, Chaabi, Rai, Egyptian classical takht ensembles and Nubian song.

Home of the griot/jeli tradition, the kora and balafon, Afrobeat, Highlife, Mbalax and the desert blues of the Sahel.

Congolese rumba and soukous, Bikutsi and Makossa from Cameroon, Aka and Baka polyphonic singing, likembe thumb pianos.

Taarab on the Swahili coast, Ethio-jazz and the krar, Somali qaraami, Benga guitar music, Kenyan and Tanzanian bongo flava.

Isicathamiya and Mbaqanga from South Africa, Chimurenga mbira music of Zimbabwe, Malagasy valiha, Mozambican marrabenta and timbila.

Blues, jazz, old-time and bluegrass, Cajun and zydeco, Native American song, Inuit throat singing, Québécois fiddle and Appalachian ballads.

Mariachi and son jarocho, marimba ensembles of Guatemala, Garifuna punta, Panamanian tamborito and the corrido ballad tradition.

Son, rumba and danzón from Cuba, Haitian vodou drumming and kompa, Jamaican mento, ska and reggae, calypso and steelpan from Trinidad, bouyon and cadence-lypso in Dominica, tumba and tambú on Curaçao.

Panpipe (siku) and charango music of the altiplano, huayno, Afro-Peruvian landó and festejo, Ecuadorian pasillo, Chilean nueva canción.

Samba, choro, forró and bossa nova, Argentine tango and chamamé, Colombian cumbia and vallenato, Venezuelan joropo, Paraguayan harp.

Shashmaqam of Bukhara, Kazakh dombra kui, Kyrgyz komuz and Manas epic, Turkmen dutar, Tajik falak and Afghan rubab music.

Hindustani and Carnatic classical raga, Qawwali, Baul mystics of Bengal, Bhangra, Sri Lankan baila, Nepali folk and the sitar, tabla and sarod.

Chinese guqin and Beijing opera, Japanese gagaku, shakuhachi and min'yō, Korean pansori and samul nori, Taiwanese gezaixi opera, nanguan chamber music and Bunun pasibutbut, Mongolian khöömei throat singing and morin khuur.

Javanese and Balinese gamelan, Thai piphat, Khmer pinpeat, Vietnamese ca trù and đàn bầu, Burmese saung harp, Filipino kulintang and Malay dikir barat.

Celtic fiddle and pipes, sean-nós singing, Nordic polska and Sámi joik, kulning herding calls, Baltic runo-song and kantele.

Chanson, Breton fest-noz and bagad pipe bands, Alpine yodel and Schrammelmusik, Flemish and Dutch folk, accordion musette.

Flamenco and fado, Sardinian cantu a tenore, Neapolitan song, tarantella and pizzica, Corsican paghjella, Greek rebetiko and island nisiotika.

Polish mazurka and oberek, Hungarian táncház and csárdás, Romanian doina and taraf lăutari bands, Klezmer, Ukrainian bandura and Russian byliny.

Brass bands and čoček, Bulgarian women's choirs and asymmetrical dance metres, Bosnian sevdalinka, Albanian iso-polyphony, Serbian gusle epics.

Aboriginal songlines, didgeridoo (yidaki) and clapsticks, Torres Strait island song, Māori haka, waiata and taonga pūoro instruments.

Melanesian bamboo bands and panpipes of the Solomons, Papua New Guinea kundu drum and sing-sing, Fijian meke, Vanuatu string bands, Kanak kaneka.

Maqam-based art music, Turkish makam and aşık bards, Persian dastgah and radif, Arabic tarab, Sufi zikr, Kurdish dengbêj and Yemeni oud song.

Georgian three-part polyphony, Armenian duduk and sharakan chant, Azerbaijani mugham, Chechen and Dagestani dance music.