What it is, what to hear first, and what sits next to it.
"World" (or "World Music") is a meaningless classification often used to discriminate any music from mainstream pop and rock. Those who use of this classification display a breathtaking ignorance of the variety of music through history and around the world. The term can thus encompass all the music ever created, from traditional African drumming and the extended qawwali singing of Pakistan through to rock'n'roll from Italy or Brazil. Indeed, as even .