Part I, Histories of world music. On world music as a concept in the history of music scholarship / Bruno Nettl. Music cultures of mechanical reproduction / Peter Manuel. Western music as world music ...

To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, we're pinpointing distinct moments of every year from the past 100 years, a ...

The jazz multi-instrumentalist wants to unite the world in song. But his new album collapses the wide-ranging possibilities of global music into something for everyone and no one. Now Batiste wants to ...