WORLD MUSIC

The term world music includes

Traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin," including Western music (ie. Celtic music). Most typically, the term world music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world.
Other non-Western music (including non-Western popular music and non-Western classical music)
World music does not include

Western popular music
Western Art music (ie. European classical music) Terminology
The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry, and it is generally used to classify any kind of foreign (i.e. non-Western) music.

In musical terms, world music can be roughly defined as music that uses distinctive ethnic scales, modes and musical inflections, and which is usually (though not always) performed on or accompanied by distinctive traditional ethnic instruments, such as the koauau (maaori flute), kora (West African lute), the steel drum, the sitar or the didgeridoo. WORLD MUSIC VIDEOS CLICK HERE

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