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Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination labels of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast between its modern and ethnic elements.
Worldbeat is a term for music that fuses disparate styles from around the world, often with Western influences. Learn about the history, styles, artists, and albums of worldbeat music on AllMusic.
The results can range from Westernized pop or dance music to wild, genre-hopping experimentalism, but the central, unifying feature of worldbeat is that it's a conscious attempt to bring world music to a wider audience.
Worldbeat is a music genre that blends Western pop music or rock music with traditional, folk or world music influences. A music playlist of World Beat songs...
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Jul 12, 2023 · When New Wave Met Worldbeat. The first blast of New Wave mostly stuck to the same rock rhythms. By the early 80s, though, bands began to assimilate sounds from Africa, India, Asia, and beyond.
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In popular music, worldbeat refers to any style of music which fuses folk music, often from non-traditional sources (essentially, outside the Appalachian folk and Celtic traditions) with Western rock or other pop influences.
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Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination labels of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast between its modern and ethnic elements.