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“World” (or “World Music”) is a controversial classification often used in music marketing to easily discriminate different music from the anglophone genres (and even traditional anglophone Folk genres from more popular styles such as Rock, Pop, Jazz and Electronic music). Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Ayub Ogada

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Friday 1 June 2012
Omar Souleyman Friday 1 June 2012	Mezzanine San Francisco CA, United States 37.782348 -122.408059	4 going Add shout
Sunday 3 June 2012
Balkan Beat Box Sunday 3 June 2012	The Old Rock House St. Louis, MO, St Louis, United States 38.615272 -90.196284	2 going Add shout
Dengue Fever & Omar Souleyman Dengue Fever, Omar Souleyman Sunday 3 June 2012	Paradise Rock Club Boston MA, United States 42.351784 -71.119549	10 going Add shout
Monday 4 June 2012
Balkan Beat Box Balkan Beat Box Monday 4 June 2012	Bottleneck Lawrence KS, United States 38.96985 -95.235059	1 going Add shout
Omar Souleyman Dengue Fever Monday 4 June 2012	Webster Hall New York NY, United States 40.731689 -73.989293	4 going Add shout
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Monday 4 June 2012	DG's Tap House Ames, Iowa, 50010, United States	Add shout

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sirspammer

Wow, other people feel the same about this tag. I think we should start tagging everything with the tag World, until we start to find music from other worlds...

26 days ago
MissCappuccino

KILL IT WITH FIRE [6]

March 2012
VolcanoColdplay

if english speakers tag music in other language as "world" music Im going to tag theirs as "musica de mundo" if is not in spanish, doable with all the existing idioms. Lets see how they like it [2]

March 2012
VolcanoColdplay

KILL IT WITH FIRE [5]

March 2012
VolcanoColdplay

Dear Americans, please stop tagging music that's neither country nor dance music as 'world'. IT ANNOYS THE CRAP OUT OF ME.

March 2012
headey

OK, 'world' is a bit of a squishy genre but it generally gives quite a good varied listening experience. The 'world' tag isn't just going to fade away because a few(ok, lots of) people have something 'clever' to say against it . For people with some positive things to say this would be a good place to post links to better named tag radios. ~~~~ btw the posts on the ethnic tag probably need a few more comments from you all.

January 2012
venenumest

"I dont think its stupid,world music is also a genre..." did you mean: worldbeat

January 2012
venenumest

Well, there's space rock.

January 2012