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Good examples of hybrid, world fusion are the Irish-West African meld of Afro Celt Sound System, [16] the pan-cultural sound of AO Music [17] and the jazz / Finnish folk music of Värttinä, [18] each of which bear tinges of contemporary, Western influence—an increasingly noticeable element in the expansion genres of world music.
Some musicians and curators of music have come to dislike the term "world music". To these critics, "world music" is a parochial, catch-all marketing term for non-Western music of all genres. In October 1999, Luaka Bop label founder and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an "I Hate World Music" editorial in The New York Times ...
These categories are not exhaustive. A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
Regions: Appalachia; Mid-Atlantic; West; Cities: Annapolis; Athens; Atlanta; Austin; Baltimore; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Detroit; Fort Worth; Los Angeles ...
Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics [2] ... is an example of Asian folk music, ... each year is purportedly Sweden's largest world-music festival ...
The music of the Luo, for another example, is functional, used for ceremonial, religious, political or incidental purposes, during funerals (Tero buru) to praise the departed, to console the bereaved, to keep people awake at night, to express pain and agony and during cleansing and chasing away of spirits, during beer parties (Dudu, ohangla ...
Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. [1] Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination labels of contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast and synthesis between its modern and ethnic elements.
The term "world music" began in the 1990s as a marketing term to classify and sell records from other parts of the world under a unified label. Different styles of this world music began making appearances on the Billboard charts, in Grammy Award nominations, and through participation of new immigrants looking to get involved as musicians and ...