World

“World” (or “World Music”) is a classification often used in music marketing to refer to music from outside of the traditional Anglophone world of the UK, USA and Australia. The term can thus encompass - at its broadest - everything from traditional African drumming and the extended qawwali singing of Pakistan’s Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan through to rock’n’roll from Italy or Brazil. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder

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Nov 8 Sunday 8 November 2009 Today
Hardcore Folk from Poland at Highline Ballroom
Warsaw Village Band
Highline Ballroom
New York, United States
40.743128 -74.005666

1 person attending
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Nov 9 Monday 9 November 2009 Tomorrow
Idan Raichel Alumni Memorial…
Knoxville, TN, United States

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Rupa & the April Fishes at Parima
Rupa & The April Fishes
Parima
Burlington, Vt, United States
44.47583 -73.2125

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THE Dubber Elbow Room
Columbia, SC, United States
33.998679 -81.016736

1 person attending
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Nov 10 Tuesday 10 November 2009
Isaac Delgado Cafe 939
Boston, MA, Boston, United States
42.348667 -71.084132

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Nov 11 Wednesday 11 November 2009
Rupa & the April Fishes at Regattabar
Rupa & The April Fishes
Regattabar
Cambridge, MA, Boston, United States
42.372311 -71.121813

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