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World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world", "somebody else's local music" or "non-western music". In the classic definition, world music is the traditional music or folk music of a culture that is created and played by indigenous musicians and is closely related to the music of the regions of their origin. The term was originally intended for ethnic-specific music, though globalization is expanding its scope; it now often includes hybrid sub-genres such as World fusion,Global fusion, Ethnic fusion and Worldbeat These terms may also be considered sub-genres of pop music, illustrating that the term world music refers to music that is also classified under other genres.
The term has been credited to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown, who coined it in the early 1960s at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he developed undergraduate through doctoral programs in the discipline. To enhance the process of learning, he invited more than a dozen visiting performers from Africa and Asia and began a world music concert series. The term became current in the 1980s as a marketing/classificatory device in the media and the music industry, and it is often used to classify any kind of non-Western music.[citation needed]
Out in the street they call it murder
Hey, hey, hey; Yes I
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Keep me rocking with me daughter-eh-a
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Never lef' ya, never no sah-eh-a
Hey now just be nice and hold you space
I won't entertain no more disgrace
Out in the street they call it murder
When rhythm spacing out your head
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Keep me rocking with me daughter-eh-a
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Never lef' ya, never no sah-eh-a
Hey, hey, hey; Yes I dead
Man showing how man feeling
Man singing goodness gracious I
Then thousand rydims peeling
Now it makes the spider kiss the fly
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Keep me rocking with me daughter-eh-a
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Lord I thirsty, give me water-eh-a
Hey, hey, hey; Yes I dead
Hey now just be nice and hold you space
I won't entertain no more disgrace
Out in the street they call it murder
When rhythm spacing out your head
World a reggae music on yah-eh
Keep me rocking with me daughter-eh-a
World a reggae music on yah-eh