Usually means: Global traditional and cultural sounds.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word world music:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. world music: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. world music: Merriam-Webster
  3. world music: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. world music: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. world music: Collins English Dictionary
  6. world-music: Wordnik
  7. world music: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. world music: Wiktionary
  9. world music: Dictionary.com
  10. World Music (Goat album), World Music (Taj Mahal album), World Music, World-music, World music: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. world music: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. world music: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. world music: The Folk File

Definitions from Wiktionary (world music)

noun:  (music, rare) Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.
noun:  (music) Music that combines elements from traditional styles from the non-Western world along with modern, popular elements, in order to create something marketed towards Western audiences.

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