World music can be considered as a significant category in music. It does not mean music made on the planet Earth. Many different types of music fit into this genre. It actually consists of music that is not western, American, or British popular music. It is categorized by region and is the traditional music of a culture and is played by local, indigenous musicians. This type of music preserves a region’s culture, but it seems that, with globalization, local musicians are “losing their local identities”. The local sounds are also being fused with other types of music to create “heterogeneous world music”. World music could be anything from traditional ethnic music to foreign language pop music. It seems every type of music today is affected by another type of music. There exists Spanish reggae, country rap, and Korean pop music. These are just a few examples of mixes of world music.
P.S. Are we completely done class on March 25? And do we have a final exam?
I would agree with most of what you have written here. The only slight issue I would take is with you suggestion that 'It seems every type of music TODAY is affected by another type of music." Was there ever a time when this was not so?
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your question, yes March 25th is the final lecture and there is no final exam.