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Alan Tigay presents the Global 500 Greatest Songs of all time
Since 2015, Alan Tigay has been the host of the website World Listening Post, on which he has reviewed albums from 95 countries; most recently on the site, he published a list of The Global 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Earlier in his career, Alan wrote op-eds, features, travel articles, reviews and humor for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsday, Chicago Sun-Times, American Heritage, Travel Holiday and National Lampoon. He was executive editor of the New York-based Hadassah Magazine for many years, administered a literary prize, and served as a judge for the National Magazine Awards. Alan has degrees from the University of Michigan and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
In this interview we talk about Alan’s 2-1/2 years of research compiling the Global 500 list, sample several of the songs on the list, and hear the stories behind the songs.
A quote from Alan’s writing: “I think of journalism as a frame for looking at events and phenomena in relation to one another, to see what can be learned.”
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