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: Prem Joshua

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Jan 6 Wednesday 6 January 2010 Today
The AKGI Duo at Jazz Showcase at Jazz Showcase The Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo	Jazz Showcase Chicago, Il, United States	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 7 Thursday 7 January 2010 Tomorrow
The Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo	The Whistler Chicago, IL, Chicago, United States 41.92519 -87.700704	2 people attending Add shout
Rattle The Walls LIVE at Good Hurt Alex Nester	Good Hurt Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.004461 -118.432287	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 8 Friday 8 January 2010
Souad Massi	Michigan Theater Ann Arbor, Detroit MI, United States 42.279394 -83.742041	2 people attending 1 shout
Muriel Anderson with Tierra Negra at The Great American Music Hall Muriel Anderson, Tierra Negra	The Great American… San Francisco CA, United States 37.785063 -122.418798	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 9 Saturday 9 January 2010
Muriel Anderson with Tierra Negra at Empress Theatre Muriel Anderson, Tierra Negra	Empress Theatre Vallejo, CA, San Francisco, United States 38.102127 -122.257125	Add shout

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chump86 wrote:
yesterday afternoon

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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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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