world music
Meanings
noun
- Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical 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.
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Etymology
Attributed to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown (1960s), later primarily used as a marketing term.
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