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“World music implies absolutely nothing, in my opinion. It was a term that was used in the ‘80s, that was used to market a certain genre of music, which has long been left behind,” he said.
World Music day began in 1982 In 1982, Jack Lang, France’s minister of culture and Maurice Fleuret, a French composer together landed on the concept of celebrating the World Music Day.
We start out with Atash, Austin’s kind of world music supergroup, and they come from the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa. So they’re a microcosm of the whole series.