The term 'world music' is outdated and offensive

Its original intention was to help promote non-western musicians. But now it is just putting them in a ghettoLife's a mashup these days, isn't it? Not just online but in the real world too. From arts to science, from finance to food, from work to play, we live in a time of fantastic fusion, with ideas taken from anywhere and influences found everywhere. Nowhere is this more prevalent than among the magpies of the music world, with artists on a ceaseless search for new frontiers to explore and so...

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