World music

World music is a term that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music or classical music and has some kind of "ethnic" component. The connotation of the term is popular with folk music from the third world, European popular and folk music that uses influences from the third world, and traditional music especially (but not only) from the third world. The term is used primarily as a marketing/classificatory device, sometimes referring to any kind of foreign music, especially in a foreign language.

External links

• World music radio programs online
• fROOTS magazine charts and lists
• Global Rhythm's Top Ten
• World Music Charts Europe
• BBC World music webcast player
• WorldMusicCentral.org
• Spin the Globe: World Music radio & info
• Afropop Worldwide
• the sabras band
• World-Music-Festivalin Germany
• Photos of Regional and Cultural Genres of Music and Dance
• Putumayo World Music
• ABC's Music Deli homepage
• ABC's Message Stick indigenous people's music pages
• 1Xtra audio documentaries
• Lost Trails - Traditional music from Romania, Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria (commercial site)