world music

English

Etymology

Attributed to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown (1960s), later primarily used as a marketing term.[1]

Noun

world music (countable and uncountable, plural world musics)

  1. (music, rare) Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.
  2. (music) Music that combines elements from traditional styles from the non-Western world along with modern, popular elements, in order to create something marketed towards Western audiences.
    • 2016, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music Culture, page 123:
      While it can be considered a metagenre, world music is really more of a marketing category.

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See also

References
  1. Robert Stam (2019) World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media‎, Routledge, →ISBN:
    Although presumably coined by ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown in the early 1960s with his World Music concert series, […] the World Music tag was officially adopted by the music industry in the late 1980s as a marketing label to refer to “commercially available music of non-Western origin” circulating in “the West.”
  • 2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 232.

Spanish

Noun

world music m (uncountable)

  1. world music
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