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The talk page of this project page is for discussing the definitions of the following terms:

3 types of music (with fusions)

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Music can essentially be divided into three categories:

  • Art music: This includes various types of music, mostly classical (both western and non-western), but also jazz
  • Popular music: This is the music that is in the mainstream at the moment
  • Traditional music: This is the music of various people of the world; basically what was popular music in a pre-globalisation, pre-copyright, pre-electronic age (with the split between popular and traditional music occuring at different times in different parts of the world, depending on globalisation, etc); typified by an oral tradition

In addition, there are fusions of the above:

Definitions of terms under discussion

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The terms under discussion seem to be defined as follows:

  • World music: All traditional music, plus non-Western Art and Pop music (does not include blues or country)
  • Roots music:
    • General definition (according to Roots music page + common sense): Traditional music + Popular music which is based on traditional music
    • Specific definition: American roots music (includes blues and country)
  • Folk music: Traditional music, plus popular music which is based on traditional folk music

Wikipedia music organisation

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At the moment, much of the same content appears on eg. the Folk music and World music pages. The following proposals seemed to achieve consensus on the talk page:

  1. Change Traditional music from being a redirect to Folk music, and make it a defintion, plus a set of links to the appropriate articles; some of the material from Folk music could be used (Done)
  2. Rewrite World music, Folk music, and Roots music with reference to the following articles:
  3. Move the "World Music" WikiProject to Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national music (a geographically-based music project) (done)
  4. Create "Roots music" (Roots music in the general sense (see above), not the specific sense) (in process)

Proposals Round 2

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Other proposals did not reach consensus, so a new set of proposals to replace them are:

Seems like someone has done this previously for fusion (music). I changed Progressive music to a disambiguation page today. --Parzival418 Hello 02:57, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think that was me, when no-one disagreed.