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World events in New York City this weekend - Friday and Saturday nights. Updated daily.
World Events This Weekend · New York City

Koran Agan


Luisito Quintero, 3rd Element

Carte Blanche

The Michael Arenella Quartet

Dj Birane

Mandarin Mambo

Kim Macharia, Bodoma Garifuna, Quilombo Do Acupe Capoeira Group, GarifunaRobics, DJ Wavy Fox

Ercan Alkan, Avi Ackermann



Govind Krsna Das, Mayuri Gandharvika, Srikar


Gabriel Hermida

Itai Kriss, Telavana

Omar Masri

KANDARA




Jarana Beat

MONECO

Gotham Dance Theater, Marc Nunez

Sound profile
An organic sound.
World music is a broad classification that emerged in the late 1980s to categorize diverse non-Western folk, traditional, and indigenous styles for global commercial markets. This expansive genre features a vast array of instrumentation ranging from traditional acoustic tools like the African kora and Indian sitar to contemporary electronic synthesizers. Its rhythmic structures often involve complex polyrhythms and non-standard time signatures that deviate from Western pop norms, creating moods that span from meditative and spiritual to high-energy celebratory. Semantically related to ethnomusicology and global folk, world music serves as an umbrella term that facilitates the cross-cultural exchange of localized musical traditions within a globalized industry framework.
Also known as: Global music, International music
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