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World Music is a category that centers regionally rooted creative practices, creating space for work that draws from longstanding cultural traditions that might otherwise remain outside the mainstream global musical landscape, prioritizing the specificity of place and the unique creative lineages that shape each body of work that falls under its umbrella. Unlike more commercially driven musical categories that prioritize widespread cross-cultural appeal to mass, generalized audiences, World Music frames work that carries the weight of its origin, holding space for the nuances of community, heritage, and creative legacy that inform every layer of the sound itself. This category has long centered work from nations across the global south, elevating creators whose work is shaped by the cultural contexts of their home countries, and creating pathways for that work to reach audiences far beyond the geographic borders where it first emerged.
