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World music as a genre exists first to center regionally rooted sonic expressions that might otherwise be overlooked by mainstream Western commercial music ecosystems, gathering together a vast range of cultural practices that tie sound to the specific histories, geographies, and community identities of the places that spawn them. Unlike genre classifications built around shared sonic tropes that cross geographic lines, world music’s framework prioritizes the cultural specificity of the sounds it encompasses, framing each recording not as a generic global track, but as a product of the unique contexts that shaped its creation. This focus on place and cultural identity means that every sound grouped under the world music umbrella carries with it a connection to a specific part of the world, a link that lets audiences engage with the cultural context that gave rise to the work as much as they engage with the sound itself.
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