a name revision for World Music: the lone international category accommodating those outside the English and Spanish-speaking worlds.
The new title, Global Music, was determined to be a “more relevant, modern and inclusive term” which “symbolises a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk and ‘non-American’ that the former term embodied”, it said, referring to the change as the next step in its evolution “to embrace a truly global mindset”.
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