World music

The term “World Music” has been credited to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown who coined it in the 1960s. The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry, and it is generally used in a discriminatory and problematic fashion to classify any kind of non-Western music, even including some Western styles such as Celtic Folk music. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Angel Rada

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Friday 1 June 2012
Arts for the Schools Fishtank EnsembleConcert Friday 1 June 2012	Old Rec Center 10046 Church St., Truckee, CA, United States 39.329039 -120.183231	Add shout
Sunday 10 June 2012
AfroCubismConcert Sunday 10 June 2012	North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh NC, United States 36.13167 -79.41278	1 going Add shout
Friday 22 June 2012
Fishtank EnsembleConcert Friday 22 June 2012	Levitt Pavilion Pasadena Pasadena, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.146286 -118.148877	Add shout
BuikaConcert Friday 22 June 2012	Howard Theatre Washington DC, United States 38.916103 -77.02122	1 going Add shout Buy Tickets
Sunday 24 June 2012
BuikaConcert Sunday 24 June 2012	Highline Ballroom New York, United States 40.743128 -74.005666	Add shout
Buika BuikaConcert Sunday 24 June 2012	Highline Ballroom New York, United States 40.743128 -74.005666	1 going Add shout

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headey

;) @ xxweirdwonderxx / Fabiiha / ClassyMusicSnob if you looked you'd see that someone already sort of said that, but rather more eruditely ~~~~~~ http://www.last.fm/tag/world%20music/wiki

April 2012
xxweirdwonderxx

wtf is world music then in China, American country music is "world music" to them

March 2012
freqax

The first Freqax Official Video of POLITICAL CRIME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ta4RKvPGxM

February 2012
ojosturbios

http://www.lastfm.es/music/Ojos+Turbios

January 2012
flagunas

Check this artist!! If you like the World Music listen this amazing Mexican Folk + Jazz Fusion.. http://www.lastfm.es/music/La+Manta - http://www.facebook.com/LaMantaMX

December 2011
Fabiiha

fuck this tag, ALL MUSIC IS WORLD MUSIC AS ITS MADE ON EARTH! [2]

October 2011
ClassyMusicSnob

fuck this tag, ALL MUSIC IS WORLD MUSIC AS ITS MADE ON EARTH!

October 2011
HELIOSSEVEN

GOOD DAY, RESPECT AND THANKS, MY NAME IS L.A. LEWIS aka 7 STAR GENERAL aka HELIOS 7, I AM A JAMAICAN ARTIST, I DO REGGAE AND DANCEHALL MUSIC AND AT TIMES DO CROSSOVER COLLABS WITH RAP AND HIP HOP ARTISTS, I AM INTERESTED IN DOING SOME MUSIC WORK FOR YOU, SUCH AS, DUBPLATES, JINGLES, ACCAPPELLAS, COLLABS, STAGE SHOWS, EVENTS, RECORD DEAL OR ALBUM DEALS, OR ANYTHING MUSICALLY YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO DO. I CAN BE CONTACTED HERE OR BY EMAILS ( pyramid3prod.ltd@gmail.com or rothschild7records@gmail.com ) OR YOU CAN CALL ( 876-398-5710, 876-451-6441, 876-283-4921 )…BIG UP, PLEASE REPLY.

June 2011