world music

Noun

countable rare uncountable

(music, rare) Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.

Japanese Meaning

伝統音楽、すなわち大衆音楽やクラシック音楽とは異なり、各地域や民族の伝統的な音楽を指す

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She traveled to remote villages to record world music that was disappearing with the elders.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は高齢の住民とともに失われつつある珍しい民族音楽を記録するため、辺鄙な村々を訪ねた。

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Sense（1）

(music, rare) Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.

Sense（2）

(music) Music that combines elements from traditional styles from the non-Western world along with modern, popular elements, in order to create something marketed towards Western audiences.

While it can be considered a metagenre, world music is really more of a marketing category.

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world musics

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