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date: 13 September 2024

world music. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Music
Author(s):
Carole PeggCarole Pegg

Used initially by ethnomusicologists to refer to the diverse local musics of the world, ‘world music’ has also become a marketing term for ‘any commercially available music of non-Western origin and circulation, as well as … all musics of dominated ethnic minorities within the Western world’ (Feld, ... ...

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