AMHERST — When Amherst Regional High School sophomore Joe Hazlip visited West Africa last month as part of a unique exchange, he didn’t expect to find the same music there as in the U.S.

“My host friends and I would walk together at night in Senegal,” Hazlip said. “I remember I didn’t expect we’d be listening to the same music, you know, that we both really love. But there we were.”