Eliminating the generic 'World Music' classification

One of the fruits of restrictive marketing tactics has been the creation of the misleading genre of 'World Music'. This basically boils down to a giant cauldron of non-Western music styles, related only by the lack of promotion in the West. The richness of the World music heritage is hidden from all but the odd Long Tail customer while ignorance on the part of giant digital music libraries breeds further ignorance by burying it in the hard-to-find digital catalogue buckets.

World Music case study 1:

Anyone coming across an interesting piece of Latin music will be at odds as to how to find similar Latin artists among thousands of names listed under "Latin". mHashup will deliver similar music and supply all the names for further searching.

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World Music case study 2:

A Latin melody recorded in a track which has been catalogued as Rock or Jazz, can be matched to its origin, thus enabling a discovery of a whole new area of music.

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World Music case study 3:

One is able to navigate across different musical areas of the planet by connecting sounds and finding links between instruments from different parts of the world, thus spotting cultural influences and movements.

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-- MichelaMagas - 31 Oct 2008