world song

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world song (plural world songs)

  1. (music) A song from the genre of world music.
    • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist[1], number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:
      Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.
    • 2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally, →ISBN, page 214:
      However, more recent publications include world songs as a matter of course along with folk songs […]