World Music Genre

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A World Music Genre is a contemporary music genre that is connected with traditional music.



References

2023

  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/world_music Retrieved:2023-10-11.
    • World music is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in Roots magazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there".[1]

      This music that does not follow "North American or British pop and folk traditions" [2] was given the term "world music" by music industries in Europe and North America. The term was popularized in the 1980s as a marketing category for non-Western traditional music. It has grown to include subgenres such as ethnic fusion (Clannad, Ry Cooder, Enya, etc.) and worldbeat.

  1. ↑ Chris Nickson. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music. Grand Central Press, 2004. pp. 1-2.
  2. ↑ Discover music: "International" . RhythmOne. Retrieved 2020-09-04.