world music
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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)
- (music, rare) Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.
- (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.
Translations
traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music
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music that combines elements from traditional styles with popular elements
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See also
References
- ^ 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)