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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