world music

British  

noun

1. popular music of various ethnic origins and styles outside the tradition of Western pop and rock music

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Example Sentences

It was thanks in significant part to Cowell that we came to have the genre we call world music.

From Los Angeles Times

Thake — who at the Public spent a decade managing Joe’s Pub, a cabaret-style venue, and more recently began overseeing Under the Radar, Public Works and other programs there — said she was eager to bring more popular and world music to Lincoln Center.

From New York Times

Songs for a New World, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.

From Washington Post

In 2020, she received the best world music album award for the fourth time with “Celia,” her tribute to the Afro-Cuban salsa dynamo Celia Cruz.

From New York Times

And finding themselves at the apex of world music came as a twist for Six60, which has enjoyed unparalleled success in New Zealand but whose forays abroad have ended without the breakthroughs they sought.

From Seattle Times