Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
World music is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the world including traditional music neotraditional music and music where more than one cultural tradition intermingle. World music’s inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in fRoots magazine’s description of the genre as local music from out there.