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These sites all contain general information pertaining to the subject of world music, including definitions, history and resource links.
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This is the Wikipedia website for World Music. It gives a general layperson's overview and definition of World Music.
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World Music Central's wiki is definitely a work in progress, but it does contain some useful links to such resources as World Music publishers, performers, history, festival, universities that specialize have ethnomusicology departments and/or specialize in world music, etc.
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A history and discussion of the current importance of World Music by Stephen Feld, anthropologist from New York University, originally published as "Notes on World Beat" in Public Cultures. It also discusses the controversies surrounding "ownership" of indigenous musics and what happen when they merge into the "World Beat" genre.
