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.
A basic actual definition of world music consists of "all the music in the world", which effectively renders the term virtually meaningless beyond marketing purposes. The term also is taken erroneously as a classification of music that combines western popular music… read more
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Top Tracks
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| 1 | Play on youtube | Ephemeral Mists — Illusion's Blooming Softly |
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| 2 | Play on youtube | Ephemeral Mists — Desert Flower |
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| 3 | Eftos — The Forgotten |
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| 4 | Play on youtube | Invictus — Daffodils |
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| 5 | Play on youtube | Invictus — The Love for the Dead |
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| 6 | Play on youtube | Invictus — Petal Pie Song |
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| 7 | Play on youtube | Miriam Makeba — Pata Pata |
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| 8 | Play on youtube | Invictus — Out of the Night |
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| 9 | Ephemeral Mists — Secrets of the Skychamber |
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| 10 | Play on youtube | Azam Ali — Spring Arrives |
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