world music

umbrella term for traditional, indigenous, popular or art music, not following North American or British popular and folk traditions
Intangible music_genre Q205049
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world music

Summary

world music is a music genre[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of music_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (661 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • world music's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • world music's GND ID is recorded as 4267804-3[4].
  • world music's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh93002569[5].
  • world music's subclass of is recorded as music[6].
  • world music's subclass of is recorded as popular music[7].
  • world music's Commons category is recorded as World music[8].
  • world music's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0827d[9].
  • world music's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph224497[10].
  • world music's topic's main category is recorded as Category:World music[11].
  • world music's Munzinger Pop ID is recorded as 02000000048[12].
  • world music's described by source is recorded as DDEX AVS Data Dictionary Version 1[13].
  • world music's partially coincident with is recorded as regional music[14].
  • world music's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/world-music[15].
  • world music's topic has template is recorded as Template:World music[16].
  • world music's BBC Things ID is recorded as cc729ca9-e568-435d-a570-f20ac2b0fa33[17].
  • world music's equivalent class is recorded as http://service.ddex.net/dd/DD-AVS-001/dd/ddex_WorldMusic[18].
  • world music's GTAA ID is recorded as 262649[19].
  • world music's different from is recorded as folk music[20].
  • world music's different from is recorded as contemporary folk music[21].
  • world music's different from is recorded as traditional folk music[22].
  • world music's different from is recorded as ethnic music[23].
  • world music's different from is recorded as music by ethnic group[24].
  • world music's YSO ID is recorded as 3065[25].
  • world music's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120_g099[26].
  • world music's The Guardian topic ID is recorded as music/worldmusic[27].

Why It Matters

world music ranks in the top 8% of music_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (661 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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