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In the Western world, "World music" refers either to music that doesn't fall into the North American and British pop or folk traditions or to hybrids of various indigenous musics. Certain styles -- such as Jamaican reggae or Latin pop -- grew large enough to be classified as their own genre, but everything else, from traditional Chinese music to African folk, is classified as world music. Worldbeat is something different than world music, since it's usually the result of Western hybrids and fusions, yet it still falls under the world music umbrella because it borrows styles, sounds and instrumentation from various indigenous musics.
International Artists Highlights grid list

Ali Farka Touré

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Baaba Maal

Ravi Shankar

Värttinä

King Sunny Ade

The Chieftains

Fela Kuti

Toumani Diabaté

Youssou N'Dour

Paco de Lucía

Ebenezer Obey

Klezmer Conservatory Band

Ali Akbar Khan

Astor Piazzolla

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ofra Haza

Kanda Bongo Man

Zakir Hussain

The Bhundu Boys

Oumou Sangaré

L. Subramaniam

Cheb Khaled

Johnny Clegg

Miriam Makeba

Mahotella Queens

Arrow

Hariprasad Chaurasia

The Jolly Boys

Boukman Eksperyans

Mahlathini

Joseph Spence

Mickey Hart

Jo-El Sonnier

BeauSoleil

Martin Carthy

Papa Wemba

Zachary Richard

Clannad

Django Reinhardt

Boozoo Chavis

The Balfa Brothers

Laurindo Almeida

Stan Getz

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Beny Moré

Caetano Veloso

Enya
International subgenres and styles [+]
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- [+] African Traditions
- [+] Asian Traditions
- [+] Brazilian Traditions
- [+] Caribbean Traditions
- [+] Celtic/British Isles
- [+] Central African
- [+] Central American Traditions
- [+] Central European Traditions
- [+] Central/West Asian Traditions
- [+] Chinese Traditions
- [+] East African
- [+] Indian Subcontinent Traditions
- [+] Indonesian Traditions
- [+] Japanese Traditions
- [+] Jewish Music
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- [+] Mediterranean Traditions
- [+] Middle Eastern Traditions
- [+] Nordic Traditions
- [+] North African
- [+] North American Traditions
- [+] North/East Asian Traditions
- [+] Oceanic Traditions
- [+] Russian Traditions
- [+] South American Traditions
- [+] South/Eastern European Traditions
- [+] Southeast Asian Traditions
- [+] Southern African
- [+] West African
- [+] Western European Traditions
- [+] Worldbeat