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Apr 16, 2024 · As the name implies, world music refers to music across all the countries of the world. It was first coined in the 1960s by an ethnomusicologist named Robert Brown at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. It’s argued among purists that there’s no musical term referred to as world music.
Apr 17, 2024 · One of the most popular representatives of this type of world music is Worldbeat, Irish-West African, and Afro-Celt Sound System. Worldbeat also goes by different names and subgenres that all lead to the same concept, such as World Fusion and Global Fusion.
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1 day ago · According to Spencer Kornhaber in The Atlantic in 2019: "When Peter Gabriel moved toward 'world music' four decades ago, he not only evangelized sounds that were novel to Western pop. He also set a radio template: majestic, with flourishes meant to read as 'exotic,' and lyrics meant to change lives."
3 days ago · Top 50 Worldbeat Song Chart for the Week of May 11, 2024
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