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: Khaled

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Feb 10 Wednesday 10 February 2010 Today
Masters of Persian Music at Walt Disney Concert Hall Masters of Persian Music	Walt Disney Concert… Los Angeles CA, United States 34.055428 -118.249876	2 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Feb 12 Friday 12 February 2010
A Chinese Home (And Additional Works) at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Kronos Quartet, Wu Man	Clarice Smith… College Park, Maryland, Washington DC, United States 38.98056 -76.93722	10 people attending Add shout
Masters of Persian Music at Irvine Barclay Theatre Masters of Persian Music	Irvine Barclay… Irvine, Los Angeles, United States 33.648561 -117.838865	4 people attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Feb 15 Monday 15 February 2010
Tinariwen	Memorial Hall Chapel Hill, NC, United States 35.935486 -79.023027	8 people attending 2 shouts
Feb 16 Tuesday 16 February 2010
Tinariwen	Wexner Center for… Columbus OH, United States 40.000675 -83.0082	11 people attending 2 shouts Buy Tickets
Les Claypool at Rialto Theatre Les Claypool, Beats Antique	Rialto Theatre Tucson AZ, United States 32.222097 -110.966665	6 people attending Add shout

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GustavoCapelo wrote:
Monday afternoon

I need music!!!! :(

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toy-maker wrote:
last week

lol ethnic tag

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madmfg wrote:
last week

I understand the argument that 'world' seems a rather ethnocentric term, but I think it's better than saying "foreign." also, it helps me when I'm looking specifically for mandarin music or african music or something. For example, if I'm browsing the 'free tracks' section, and i want to know what japanese songs there are I can click on 'world' and then look under that for 'japanese.' But it is difficult to find specific languages under the world tag, which I think they should fix coz that is the whole point to having a separate 'world' tag. . .

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rinistiltskin wrote:
last month

I have to agree with Nitin Sawhney -- the only use this genre serves is as a kind of musical apartheid. :/

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freeRR wrote:
last month

Check out The McDades a great celtic-based group from Canada.The Whistle Blower

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ms-luna-grim wrote:
last month

bleh...i was looking for celtic thunder type stuff

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chump86 wrote:
last month

i can just agree to one hundred percent.

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WiTHiNt wrote:
December 2009

Bullshit genre grouped together by xenophobic Americans. [4] exactly !

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gigi00 wrote:
November 2009

Black Eyed Peas My Humps, Corinne Bailey Rae - Like A Star, Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping, Janis Joplin, Philip Glass, Aesop Rock, Hatebreed - Destroy Everything, Chromeo - Momma's Boy.

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tyrique12 wrote:
November 2009

Say what you want about this tag..I actually found some great music using it xD

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canislupus1987 wrote:
November 2009

I think this tag should only be used for forms of traditional music, as it was in the past.

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Hrafinn wrote:
November 2009

useless term/tag

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blibblipblib wrote:
November 2009

die modus

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Alejandro240492 wrote:
November 2009

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:
October 2009

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:
October 2009

LOL at the "world" explanation!

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FarmerAnita wrote:
October 2009

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

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Yan089 wrote:
October 2009

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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