World

“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: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Lila Downs Wednesday 22 February 2012	Mello Center Watsonville, United States 36.913338 -121.752383	Add shout
Thursday 23 February 2012
Lila Downs Thursday 23 February 2012	Herbst Theatre San Francisco, United States 37.779653 -122.420719	1 going Add shout
Saturday 25 February 2012
Lila Downs Saturday 25 February 2012	The Wiltern Los Angeles CA, United States 34.061467 -118.30888	1 going Add shout
Sunday 26 February 2012
Lila Downs Live at Balboa Theatre Lila Downs Sunday 26 February 2012	Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Street San Diego, United States 32.714333 -117.161225	Add shout
Lila Downs Sunday 26 February 2012	The Balboa Theatre San Diego, United States 32.717797 -117.162066	1 going Add shout
Monday 27 February 2012
School Night! Cate le Bon, Haim Monday 27 February 2012	Bardot Hollywood, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.102743 -118.327025	Add shout

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headey wrote:
last month

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.

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venenumest wrote:
last month

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

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venenumest wrote:
last month

Well, there's space rock.

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dudurocha05 wrote:
December 2011

Stupid tag! Is there anything as "extra-planetary music"?

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Optimus_Nasty wrote:
December 2011

KILL IT WITH FIRE [4] CRUCIFY IT! [3]

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Jeannyd wrote:
December 2011

KILL IT WITH FIRE [3] CRUCIFY IT! [2]

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LaxATivvz wrote:
November 2011

KILL IT WITH FIRE [2]

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LaxATivvz wrote:
November 2011

"classification often used in music marketing to easily discriminate different music from the anglophone genres. " you are correct, my friend, fuck the "world" tag

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pipsox wrote:
October 2011

You know what?! its not a bad Idea at all, so 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

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b-l-ackstage wrote:
October 2011

lol I thought I was alone with this burning hate but now I see I'm not alone xD

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ClassyMusicSnob wrote:
October 2011

CRUCIFY IT!

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Thornspire wrote:
September 2011

KILL IT WITH FIRE

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clytie_hizashi wrote:
September 2011

Stupid, lazy, racist tag..... but I like a good deal of the music represented here. Derp.

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outrenoir wrote:
September 2011

why don't you spend a little time to find out what style something is or even what continent it's from > according to his page Manu Chao is a european guy who mostly plays reggae, obviously the same genre as a Pakistani singing Sufi Qawwali... The world music label is pretty lazy now the internet exists guys

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edgarhudon wrote:
September 2011

justin bieber is world music

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Blu- wrote:
August 2011

"often used in music marketing to easily discriminate" That about sums it up.

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LiFreitas wrote:
June 2011

I dont think its stupid,world music is also a genre...[2] I don't know how to categorize Manu Chao or Macaco, for example, as other genre if not as 'world'.

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ziamendoza wrote:
June 2011

I dont think its stupid,world music is also a genre...

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Adthey wrote:
June 2011

"world" ?!! that's like tagging "music".. [6] and yet, there are people who tag as music.

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Smash0Czech wrote:
June 2011

http://youtu.be/wf4Hb11_8Qo

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