Editing World music (section)

==Hybrid examples==
[[File:Vampire Weekend Red Rocks 05.20.13.jpg|200px|left|thumb|[[Vampire Weekend]] performing at [[Red Rocks Amphitheatre]] in 2013]]
Since the music industry established this term, the fuller scope of what an average music consumer defines as "world" music in today's market has grown to include various blends of ethnic music tradition, style and interpretation,<ref name="nationalgeographic1"/> and derivative world music genres have been coined to represent these hybrids, such as ethnic fusion and [[worldbeat]]. Good examples of hybrid, world fusion are the [[Irish folk music|Irish]]-[[West African music|West African]] meld of [[Afro Celt Sound System]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/afro-celt-sound-system-p200387 |title=Afro Celt Sound System |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2012-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519170340/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/afro-celt-sound-system-p200387/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the pan-cultural sound of AO Music<ref>{{cite web|url=https://allmusic.com/artist/aomusic-p2335411 |title=Aomusic |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> and the [[jazz]] / [[Finnish folk music|Finnish folk]] music of [[Värttinä]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/vrttin-p42219 |title=Värttinä |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2011-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230195636/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/vrttin-p42219 |url-status=live }}</ref> each of which bear tinges of contemporary, Western influence—an increasingly noticeable element in the expansion genres of world music. Worldbeat and ethnic fusion can also blend specific indigenous sounds with more blatant elements of [[pop music|Western pop]]. Good examples are [[Paul Simon]]'s album ''[[Graceland (album)|Graceland]]'', on which South African [[mbaqanga]] music is heard; [[Peter Gabriel]]'s work with [[Pakistanis|Pakistani]] [[Sufi]] singer [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]; the [[Deep Forest]] project, in which vocal loops from [[West Africa]] are blended with Western, contemporary rhythmic textures and [[harmony|harmony structure]]; and the work of [[Mango (singer)|Mango]], who combined pop and rock music with world elements.

Depending on style and context, world music can sometimes share the [[new-age music]] genre, a category that often includes [[ambient music]] and textural expressions from indigenous [[Folk music|roots]] sources. Good examples are [[Standing bell|Tibetan bowls]], [[Tuvan throat singing]], [[Gregorian chant]] or [[Native American flute]] music. World music blended with new-age music is a sound loosely classified as the hybrid genre 'ethnic fusion'. Examples of ethnic fusion are [[Nicholas Gunn]]'s "Face-to-Face" from ''Beyond Grand Canyon,'' featuring authentic [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] [[flute]] combined with [[synthesizer]]s, and "Four Worlds" from ''The Music of the Grand Canyon'', featuring spoken word from Razor Saltboy of the [[Navajo Nation|Navajo Indian Nation]].

===World fusion===
{{distinguish|Ethno jazz}}
The subgenre '''world fusion''' is often mistakenly assumed to refer exclusively to a blending of Western [[jazz fusion]] elements with world music. Although such a hybrid expression falls easily into the world fusion category, the suffix "fusion" in the term world fusion should not be assumed to mean jazz fusion. Western jazz combined with strong elements of world music is more accurately termed ''world fusion jazz'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/world-fusion-d185 |title=World Fusion |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2012-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502084655/http://allmusic.com/explore/style/world-fusion-d185 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[ethno jazz|ethnic jazz]]'' or ''non-Western jazz''. World fusion and global fusion are nearly synonymous with the genre term ''[[worldbeat]]'', and though these are considered subgenres of [[popular music]], they may also imply universal expressions of the more general term ''world music''.<ref name="nationalgeographic1"/> In the 1970s and 1980s, [[Jazz fusion|fusion]] in the [[jazz music]] genre implied a blending of jazz and [[rock music]], which is where the misleading assumption is rooted.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/d299 |title=Fusion |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2020-04-16 |archive-date=2012-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219122445/http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/d299 |url-status=live }}</ref>