I suggest expanding / separating international music genres. African music, for example, now has several very prominent, and very distinctive sub genres in the mainstream that are not represented here (Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Afro-pop, High Life, Amapiano, etc) that it should stand alone as a category, the way Latin is a standalone genre.
Afro-beat and Afro-pop are styles under African Traditions, which is a subgenre listed with other "traditions" under the international genre.
Thanks for mentioning that. I see Highlife now under West African. So I guess these could all just be under "African" as a stand along category in "Genres" like Latin.
The best ways in which to present the hierarchies for categorizing musical genres, subgenres and styles is one of our biggest challenges.
Our thinking in this case is to group the area-specific styles by their respective regions, and any style that is more pan-geographic gets grouped into a more generic overall bucket.
In this case, things like Afro-beat and Afro-pop end up in the broader "African Traditions" subgenre, and a style like Highlife (which originated in West Africa) is grouped under the West African subgenre.
