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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Music Day, celebrated every year on June 21, is a global tribute to the universal language of music and its power to unite people across cultures and backgrounds. Known as Fte de la Musique, the ...

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, ...

It was 1964 when the young Philip Glass found himself in Paris. He was on a Fulbright scholarship to study with the revered pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. It was a career move carefully planned. Glass ...

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 ...