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World music
World music is a broad label used for music drawing from diverse global traditions and cultural contexts.
Level relevance: introduced at Higher; tagged for every later level where the same concept remains useful.
Explanation
In Music Technology, this term is relevant when considering instrumentation, recording context, production choices, sampling, cultural awareness, and listening analysis.
Topics
Styles and genresListeningContext
Curriculum statusofficial concept
Review statusdraft
Sources
- Higher Music Technology course specification, May 2023, version 3.0 · accessed 2026-07-08
Used for Higher technology skills, technology concepts, and music concepts.