| In the Western world, "World music"
refers either to music that doesn't fall into the North American and British pop or folk
traditions or to hybrids of various indigenous musics. Certain styles -- such as Jamaican
reggae or Latin pop -- grew large enough to be classified as their own genre, but
everything else, from traditional Chinese music to African folk, is classified as world
music. Worldbeat is something different than world music, since it's usually the result of
Western hybrids and fusions, yet it still falls under the world music umbrella because it
borrows styles, sounds and instrumentation from various indigineous musics. Main Types of
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music is LIFE!
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