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Every continent has a voice. World music celebrates the planet's staggering sonic diversity — West African griot traditions, Indian classical ragas, Mongolian throat singing, Celtic fiddle, Middle Eastern oud, Andean pan flute. Not a genre but a universe of genres, connected by the human need to make music.

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The Sound of World Music

ORIGIN
Global
ERA
Ancient – present
BPM RANGE
Variable
KEY CHARACTERISTICS
Cultural diversity · Traditional instruments · Regional scales · Oral traditions · Rhythmic complexity · Cross-cultural fusion

Key Artists

ARTISTS THAT DEFINE WORLD MUSIC

FELA KUTI
LAGOS · AFROBEAT
Zombie, Expensive Shit — Kuti invented Afrobeat, fusing Yoruba music with jazz and funk into political fire.
RAVI SHANKAR
VARANASI · SITAR
The master sitarist who brought Indian classical music to the West and influenced the Beatles.
ALI FARKA TOURÉ
MALI · DESERT BLUES
The source of blues. Touré proved that the Mississippi Delta's music traces back to the Niger River.
TINARIWEN
SAHARA · TUAREG
Desert rock from the Sahara. Tinariwen's electric guitars and Tuareg chants created a sound the world had never heard.
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