I created a course How Music Shapes Cities: Varanasi to NYC for Ahmedabad University, which I've then repurposed into presentations for various audiences. The course teaches students about global musical genres and how their geography shapes them.

Students engage with how music influences the identity of a city including its architecture, social life and economy. They are also exposed to the roots and progression of different genres of music, from Western and Indian classical, folk, hip hop to blues, country, jazz and popular.

The course examines how music shapes cities and in turn is influenced by them. While students explore the local origins of musical genres, from their origin to the present they will also look at how music transcends geographical borders and cultural boundaries.

Here is a short introduction video that I share with my students at the beginning of the semester.