Shakti - Indo-Jazz fusion

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by Chilperich

It's certainly an improvement, although I've seen CDs by Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg filed in the "World Music" sections of big record shops in London!

True... plus 'non-Western' wouldn't suit traditional English or Irish (etc.) folk music.

Maybe we should plump for 'miscellaneous'? I know strictly speaking this would all go under ethnomusicology, but then, one can do ethnomusicological studies of classical and pop (though ethnomusicology clearly is unofficially the area for indigenous and non-Western music). 'Ethnic music' is useful, though to me appears to have rather patronising resonances.

[Chilperich]

Originally Posted by Herzeleide

'Ethnic music' is useful, though to me appears to have rather patronising resonances.

I'm not a fan of the term "ethnic"; it implies that "they" (i.e. people of a race different to "us") are ethnic and we somehow are not.

I can't help thinking that political correctness has made far too much of race, anyway. I might note a person's race (real or perceived) the first time I meet them (much as you might note someone's hair or eye colour), but once you come to know a person you see the person, not the race.