world music
popular music of various ethnic origins and styles outside the tradition of Western pop and rock music
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How to use world music in a sentence
For better or worse, New York in the '70s melded world music and radical culture to mass-market sales.
Must-Read Books by Will Hermes, Lydia Millet, and Stuart Nadler | Nicholas Mancusi, Drew Toal, John Reed | November 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd I hear no world-music pouring out of small throats of work-children shrill with woe-and-joy.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneNow came music and dancing—Old world music and long lines of men swaying to its rhythm.
The Blood Red Dawn | Charles Caldwell DobieAlas, alas, that old-world ways were dying out and old-world music too!
Katharine Frensham | Beatrice HarradenSome time in the eighties he desired his daughter to have a little instruction in the old-world music centers.
Sixty Years of California Song | Margaret Blake-Alverson
I broke a moment's silence by exclaiming, 'What a wonder-world music creates!
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece | John Addington Symonds
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