What is the difference between World Music, Folk Music, Latin Music and Jazz?
What is the difference between World Music, Folk Music, Latin Music and Jazz?I can’t quite figure out where the line gets drawn between world music, Latin music, folk music, jazz and blues. Answer: This is an interesting question. In reality, the lines between different sorts of ethnic and traditional musics are nebulous and constantly changing. For the purposes of About.com, these genres have been split up simply because no one person is fully capable of covering them all… if you think about it, everything that’s not Pop or Rock music will fall into these categories, and that’s a whole lot of music to cover! So if you’re looking for Latin music (everything from Shakira to Tierra Caliente fiddling), you’ll want to go to the About Latin Music site. If you’re looking for alt.country, bluegrass, singer/songwriter, folk-rock, etc., check out the About Folk Music site. If you’re looking for jazz music or bl
