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The Lotus World Music & Arts Festival is a four-day event held each September in Bloomington, Indiana. The California World Music Festival is held each July at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. The World Sacred Music Festival is held annually in Olympia, Washington, sponsored by Interfaith Works.
To these critics, "world music" is a parochial, catch-all marketing term for non-Western music of all genres. In October 1999, Luaka Bop label founder and ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne wrote an "I Hate World Music" editorial in The New York Times explaining his objections to the term. Byrne argued that the labelling and categorization ...
The World Music Awards was an international award show founded in 1989 under the patronage of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and co-founder/executive producer John Martinotti. The event was based in Monte Carlo. Awards were presented to the world's best-selling artists in a number of categories and to the best-selling artists from each major ...
World Music Network is a UK-based record label specializing in world music. [1] The World Music Network website features news, reviews, live music listings, and guide sections on world music. It also features an online "Battle of the Bands" competition. [2]
The first of the World Music Network Rough Guides World Music series, it was co-released with an eponymous reference book. [1] The album features artists hailing from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Artwork was designed by Impetus, and the compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network. [1] [2]
The Juno Award for Global Music Album of the Year has been awarded since 1992, as recognition each year for the best world music album in Canada.It has previously been known as other names including "Best World Best Recording" and "Best World Music Album", with the current name being established in 2022.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
This is a list of World Music Network's "Rough Guide" albums.Most of the titles in the series begin with the phrase "The Rough Guide to" or "The Rough Guide to the Music of", and so these phrases are not shown in the titles listed below; those lacking such phrases (typically benefit or compilation albums) are still designated as part of the series by their catalogue number prefix, "RGNET".