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View synonyms for world music

world music

noun

  1. popular music of various ethnic origins and styles outside the tradition of Western pop and rock music
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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

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

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