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' ...

In this article we present the list of 12 Countries that Produce the Best Music in the World. Click to skip ahead and see the 5 Countries that Produce the Best Music in the World. The United States, ...

The New Orleans-based CEO talks about the label's legacy and its first digital compilation, Acoustic Latino, released on Friday. By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard Español Before Juan Luis ...

Egyptian singer Amr Diab incredible 30-year long career has been recognised by Guinness World Records after the star was this week awarded the title for Most World Music Awards for Best Selling Middle ...

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 ...

American ethnomusicologist Robert “Bob” Brown (1927–2005) is widely credited with first circulating “world music” as the catch-all term for popular music originating from or influenced by non-Western ...

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, ...