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World music traditions

World music traditions are living systems of sound that encode specific landscapes, histories, and ways of listening into their structure and practice. Approaching them seriously means moving beyond novelty or appropriation, instead learning the philosophical assumptions and technical disciplines that give each tradition its coherence and depth.

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