For much of the 20th century, global perceptions of pop music were limited to a narrow set of regional creative hubs, whose works dominated international understandings of what the genre could hold, whose stories it could center, and whose voices it could amplify. As decades passed, however, the global pop landscape expanded dramatically, as creators from every corner of the world brought their own unique cultural perspectives, creative traditions, and lived experiences to the genre, redefining pop from a relatively homogeneous category into a sprawling, diverse umbrella that could hold multitudes of expression, unbound by the narrow borders that once confined popular music’s reach.