Editing World music (section)

==Forms==
[[File:Alan Stivell - Jeudis du port 2013.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Alan Stivell in concert at [[Brest, France|Brest]] ([[Brittany]]), 2013]]
Examples of popular forms of world music include the various forms of non-European classical music (e.g. [[Han Chinese|Chinese]] [[guzheng]] music, [[India]]n [[raga]] music, [[Tibetan people|Tibetan]] [[music of Tibet|chants]]), Eastern European folk music (e.g. the village music of the [[Balkans]], [[Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir|The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices]]), [[Nordic folk music]], [[Latin music]], [[Indonesian music]], and the many forms of folk and tribal music of the [[Middle East]], [[Africa]], [[Asia]], [[Oceania]], [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]].

The broad category of world music includes isolated forms of ethnic music from diverse geographical regions. These dissimilar strains of ethnic music are commonly categorized together by virtue of their indigenous roots. Over the 20th century, the invention of [[sound recording]], low-cost international air travel, and common access to global communication among artists and the general public have given rise to a related phenomenon called "[[crossover (music)|crossover]]" music. Musicians from diverse cultures and locations could readily access recorded music from around the world, see and hear visiting musicians from other cultures and visit other countries to play their own music, creating a melting pot of stylistic influences. While communication technology allows greater access to obscure forms of music, the pressures of commercialization also present the risk of increasing musical homogeneity, the blurring of regional identities, and the gradual extinction of traditional local music-making practices.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Traditional Music in Community Life: Aspects of Performance, Recordings, and Preservation | url=https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/traditional-music-community-life-aspects-performance | journal=Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine | date=December 1996 | first=Anthony | last=Seeger | access-date=14 June 2019 | archive-date=18 September 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918055841/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/traditional-music-community-life-aspects-performance | url-status=live }}</ref>