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World events in Los Angeles this weekend - Friday and Saturday nights. Updated daily.
World Events This Weekend · Los Angeles

S.H.I.N.E. Mawusi Women's African Drum Circle

Opium Moon

DJ Oloff, Superstar DJ Taf

Sound profile
An organic sound.
World music is a broad classification that emerged in the late 1980s to categorize diverse non-Western folk, traditional, and indigenous styles for global commercial markets. This expansive genre features a vast array of instrumentation ranging from traditional acoustic tools like the African kora and Indian sitar to contemporary electronic synthesizers. Its rhythmic structures often involve complex polyrhythms and non-standard time signatures that deviate from Western pop norms, creating moods that span from meditative and spiritual to high-energy celebratory. Semantically related to ethnomusicology and global folk, world music serves as an umbrella term that facilitates the cross-cultural exchange of localized musical traditions within a globalized industry framework.
Also known as: Global music, International music
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