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noun
- 1. traditional music from the developing world, sometimes incorporating elements of Western popular music.
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Umbrella term for traditional, indigenous, popular or art music, not following North American or British popular and folk traditions
"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 ou... Wikipedia