Your one-of-a-kind All Around This World Musical Map of Latin America is here! Over the last few months I’ve had the pleasure of working with Uruguayan illustrator Gustavo Wenzel to create something neither of us has ever seen before–a fun, family-friendly and fully illustrated map of any part of the world–in this case Latin America–that serves as a geographical guide to that region’s main musical styles and instruments. This map introduces you to over fifty Latin American genres and even more instruments, then adds and extra special bonus by showing you the countries of origin of the songs on your All Around This World: Latin America CD. If you’re taking music class this season you’ll recognize Gustavo’s drawing as the thing I’ve been passing out in sections on the back of your weekly class handouts. It’s a great-looking thing, isn’t it? I’m just about to print the Musical Map up as a 24″ x 36″ poster that should be ready in time for Thanksgivica, and definitely for Christmas, which will look even better–perfect for a kids’ bedroom wall or a school classroom. If you want to buy one, or twelve, order here. But wait, there’s more! The Musical Map is not just a printed item that starts and ends in tangible form. What is this . . . 2010? If you look at your Latin American Musical Map, see the name of a genre of music and want to know a bit about it, dial up the All Around This World site, specifically http://www.AllAroundThisWorld.com/musical-maps-2, and you’ll find a clickable version. Click on any image and you’ll go to a page on the AATW more here site where you’ll find background information about the Latin genre, instrument or song, showing you video of someone performing the type of music or playing an instrument to boot. Voila! Your “Musical Map” truly becomes a musical map.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
