The Great Bazaar From the Meeting of Cultures to the Appropriation of the Exotic

World music appears the largest holding pen in the whole of music history. But this domain is not as disorganised as might be imagined, and, after the agitation and ebullience of the beginning of the 1980s, there emerged a period of normalisation of the market which assured the promotion of the genre. In Britain the term world music became widespread in April 1987. Given the lack of a better name, this term was adopted on that date at a meeting of a group of producers and distributors from independent music labels. According to the Dico des musiques, 'the expression designates rural traditional music, rooted music, of the land of origin, and by extension nowadays, the original forms hitherto non-modernised or non-digitalised of a musical genre'. World Mix refers to different intercultural experiences in musical fusion. The abundance of published discs has without doubt opened the public's appreciation to numerous unexpected genres.