world music

noun

1. popular music of various ethnic origins and styles outside the tradition of Western pop and rock music

Example Sentences

For better or worse, New York in the '70s melded world music and radical culture to mass-market sales.

From The Daily Beast

And I hear no world-music pouring out of small throats of work-children shrill with woe-and-joy.

From Project Gutenberg

Now came music and dancing—Old World music and long lines of men swaying to its rhythm.

From Project Gutenberg

Alas, alas, that old-world ways were dying out and old-world music too!

From Project Gutenberg

Some time in the eighties he desired his daughter to have a little instruction in the old-world music centers.

From Project Gutenberg

I broke a moment's silence by exclaiming, 'What a wonder-world music creates!

From Project Gutenberg