"World music is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the world, including traditional music, quasi-traditional music, and music where more than ...
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one cultural tradition intermingle. World music´s inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in fRoots magazine´s description of the genre as "local music from out there".
This other folk music that does not follow "North American or British pop and folk traditions" has been given a catch-all term "world music" by music industries in Europe and North America. The term was popularized in the 1980s as a marketing category for non-Western traditional music. It has grown to include subgenres such as ethnic fusion (Clannad, Ry Cooder, Enya, etc.) and worldbeat." - (en.wikipedia.org 03.01.2021)
