More than one hundred audio recordings of traditional music from around the world were collected over four decades by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The UNESCO ...

Africa’s leading Congolese Rumba music is now on the list of the world cultural heritage of humanity after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) admitted the ...

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...

United Nations decision to recognize Irish harp music as a unique art form will help to protect and spread the Irish skill. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ...

SOURCE: New Orleans has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Music, joining nine other US cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, which recognizes the role of music in urban development and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, ...

An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. By Farah Nayeri Is opera an endangered art form ...

Kansas City jazz musicians Chris Hazelton, left, and Todd Strait, right, perform for a small crowd at a press conference on Kansas City's UNESCO designation at Union Station Tuesday. At Union Station ...

Belfast has been awarded City of Music status by UNESCO, it was announced on November 8. Belfast is the first city on the island of Ireland to receive the UNESCO City of Music designation and the ...

UNESCO has officially named New Orleans a "Creative City of Music," alongside 57 other new member cities added to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on World Cities Day, an annual United Nations ...