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: Mari Boine

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Nov 24 Tuesday 24 November 2009 Today
THE Dubber	The Art Bar Columbia, SC, United States 34.000779 -81.037561	1 person attending Add shout
Nov 27 Friday 27 November 2009
Julian Casablancas Haim	Downtown Palace… Los Angeles, CA, United States	9 people attending Add shout
Brave Combo at The Gramophone Brave Combo	The Gramophone Saint Louis, MO, St Louis, United States 38.627256 -90.255647	1 person attending Add shout
Nov 28 Saturday 28 November 2009
Notis Sfakianakis at Rio Hotel & Casino Notis Sfakianakis	Rio Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, United States 36.118616 -115.186079	Add shout Buy Tickets
Rattle The Walls LIVE at The Joint Alex Nester	The Joint Los Angeles, Ca, Los Angeles, United States 34.054651 -118.382492	1 person attending Add shout
Dec 1 Tuesday 1 December 2009
Chiwoniso	University of… Seattle, WA, Seattle, United States 47.65378 -122.301393	Add shout

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tyrique12 wrote:
Friday morning

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

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canislupus1987 wrote:
Thursday afternoon

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:
12 days ago

useless term/tag

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blibblipblib wrote:
14 days ago

die modus

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Alejandro240492 wrote:
16 days 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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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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June 2009

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mra018 wrote:
June 2009

very good

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