World music

World music (term)
EtymologyCoined early 1960s to describe non-European, non-North American music[1]

"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad 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][2]

Music that does not follow "North American or British pop and folk traditions"[3] was given the term "world music" by music industries in Europe and North America.[4] The term was popularized in the 1980s as a marketing category for non-Western traditional music.[5][6] It has grown to include subgenres such as ethnic fusion (Clannad, Ry Cooder, Enya, etc.)[7] and worldbeat.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b Chris Nickson. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music. Grand Central Press, 2004. pp. 1-2.
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  3. ^ Discover music: "International" Archived 2020-09-04 at the Wayback Machine. RhythmOne. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  4. ^ Byrne, David (3 October 1999). "Crossing Music's Borders in Search of Identity; 'I Hate World Music'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  5. ^ Erlmann, Veit (1996). "Aesthetics of the Global Imagination: Reflections on World Music in the 1990s". Public Culture. Vol. 8, no. 3. pp. 467–488.
  6. ^ Frith, Simon (2000). "The Discourse of World Music". In Born and Hesmondhalgh (ed.). Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music. University of California Press.
  7. ^ "Ethnic fusion Music". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2012-04-29. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  8. ^ "Worldbeat". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  9. ^ "World Fusion Music". Worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14.