The term "world music," meaning folk music from around the world, has been credited to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown, who coined it in the early 1960s...

music from out there". This music that does not follow "North American or British pop and folk traditions" was given the term "world music" by music industries...

world music, can be interchangeable to a significant degree. Worldbeat defines a hybrid of what can be listed under the generalized world music term,...

everyday music (i.e. popular and folk music, also called "vernacular music"). Many cultures have art music traditions; in the Western world, the term typically...

types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown...

World music is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries. World Music may refer to: "World music" (term), credited to ethnomusicologist...

distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by...

R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies...

Georgia cracker). The exact history and etymology of the word is debated. The term is "probably an agent noun" from the word crack. The word crack was later...

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing...