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December 04, 2007

Contemporary World Music

I am pleased to announce another new streaming music collection has gone live -- Contemporary World Music.
 
Contemporary World Music contains 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent.  The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.  A complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world.  The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. 
 

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