1. Popular Musics and Globalization. Hasn't World Music Been Around for Thousands of Years? Welcome to the Market. World Musicians. World Music Listeners. The Discourses of World Music -- 2. "Nothin' ...

Here’s a little New Year's gift to you: A front-row seat to a thrilling and diverse selection of world music albums from 2023. We sampled songs from some of the best singer-songwriters around the ...

The global music business is experiencing demonstrable growth for the first time since the 1990s, and according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) sales of music ...

Colourful crowds, new sounds and a fresh setting marked the much-anticipated return of one of Wiltshire’s largest music ...

But you’d be hard pressed to find a more impressive lineup than the one that rocked L.A.’s Memorial Coliseum and surrounding grounds on April 7-8, 1979. To be clear, the modern definition of “world ...

Welcome to world music at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Our four non-Western music ensembles—open to both music majors and non-music majors—explore West African Highlife, ...

Anyone who thinks the Recording Academy takes something like changing the name of a Grammy Awards category lightly should take a gander at the letter that went to members Monday: After extensive ...

In June, 1987, four men met at the Empress of Russia, a pub in London, and reinvented world music. Scholars and archivists had been documenting non-Western musical traditions for at least a century, ...

Jon Batiste has announced the follow-up to his Album of the Year-winning We Are, with an all-star guest list joining the former Late Show bandleader for World Music Radio. The 20-track album, out ...

The jazz multi-instrumentalist wants to unite the world in song. But his new album collapses the wide-ranging possibilities of global music into something for everyone and no one. Now Batiste wants to ...

The masked psychedelic band Goat claim their project stems from a long-running collective of townspeople in their small Swedish village: People have been playing under the name Goat in various ...