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 Add shout
Nov 9 Monday 9 November 2009 Tomorrow
Idan Raichel	Alumni Memorial… Knoxville, TN, United States	Add shout
Rupa & the April Fishes at Parima Rupa & The April Fishes	Parima Burlington, Vt, United States 44.47583 -73.2125	Add shout
THE Dubber	Elbow Room Columbia, SC, United States 33.998679 -81.016736	1 person attending Add shout
Nov 10 Tuesday 10 November 2009
Isaac Delgado	Cafe 939 Boston, MA, Boston, United States 42.348667 -71.084132	Add shout
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	Add shout

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Alejandro240492 wrote:
5 hours ago

Yo creo que todos los artistas del mundo merecen el tag World, por que todos son de un mismo mundo.

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Psychoguile wrote:
last month

This is why everyone classifies a music in another language as one genre. The world tag is helpful in some ways, but because of this no one realizes that they have so much more in different cultures. Not all music in a different language is drastically different from our own.

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Didohotep wrote:
last month

LOL at the "world" explanation!

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MODUS_ wrote:
last month

Hi from Modus. Please listen to my Downtempo / Ambient / Chillout / World Fusion album at http://www.last.fm/music/Modus/The+Colour+of+Love Send a shout and please TAG. Many thanks, Modus... 2 NEW tracks!! 'Requiem' and 'Alone' OUT NOW!!

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FarmerAnita wrote:
last month

i hv no idea who invented "world music". This is an insult to human intelligence.

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Yan089 wrote:
last month

It's not last fm that tags these songs. If you want to clarify what kind of world music an artist is do it, don't complain, take action ;)

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scottiscool wrote:
September 2009

Oh, how fun! This music isn't in English! It's like I'm on a safari or something!

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Love_Weed wrote:
September 2009

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Tetrahydrocannabinol

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LordRama wrote:
September 2009

On this page, last.fm users take a generic, innocuous term really seriously and complain about it for no good reason. No one is surprised.

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TripleSol wrote:
September 2009

This tag is ethnocentric and should die.

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gauziski wrote:
August 2009

Bullshit genre grouped together by xenophobic Americans. [3]

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hemlokk wrote:
August 2009

Why does there have to be so much hate for this tag? Seriously, people, it's a good way to sort and organize music that has styles other than mainstream. The artists in question also have other tags attached to them too, quit being so damn revolutionary over nothing.

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saysamia wrote:
July 2009

"world" ?!! that's like tagging "music".. 4[]

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CovinS wrote:
July 2009

lol @ people's responses to the tag. It's not the greatest tag, but it's no worse than generalizing all types of mainstream music as "pop". To people from other countries, it's world music, it's from another part of the world. They probably aren't going to make much effort to explore the 800 subgenres, and i wouldn't blame anyone for doing the same the opposite direction.

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Nisstyre56 wrote:
July 2009

Bullshit genre grouped together by xenophobic Americans. [2]

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imldu wrote:
June 2009

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mra018 wrote:
June 2009

very good

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Pearsica wrote:
May 2009

it would be a nice thing that we would ignore this tag :]

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shiniigami wrote:
May 2009

cool

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Adam_Sandler wrote:
May 2009

Good music because of dead can dance :) and more that i don't know :l

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