World music broadly disseminates ethnic expressions of life. Its use is unmistakenly influential in celebration and rituals on all continents, as the following masterpieces from 11 different horizons beautifully illustrate:
1974 / 2011 ∙ Tammuriata nera / Ritmo di contrabbando (Eugenio Bennato & NCCP, Campania/ Eugenio Bennato & Orch. Popolare, Salento, Tarantella music, Southern Italy)
1980 / 2020 ∙ Biko ∙ Peter Gabriel, UK, ver. 2020 ft United artists for Social Justice)
1984 / 1994 ∙ Don't go lose it Baby / Agolo (Hugh Masekela, South-Africa/ Angelique Kidjo, Benin, Afrobeat)
1990 ∙ Must must (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Qawwalî, Sufi devotional music, Punjab, Pakistan)
1991 ∙ Treaty (Yothu Yindi, Gumatj Aborigenal-rock fusion, Yolngu, Gove Peninsula, Australia)
1996 ∙ Celebration/Obriadovaya (Sergey Starostin, modern archaic Russian, Sámi and Tuvan folk music, Russia)
1997 /2006 ∙ The Mummers' dance / Caravanseraï (Loreena McKennitt, Celtic music, Manitoba & Ontario, Canada)
2008 ∙ Bapa (Gurrumul Yunupingu, Aborigenous Yolnu, Northern Territory, Australia)
2010 ∙ Du heratsar (National) (George Musheev & Seven winds, fusion trad./jazz, Uzbekistan)
2012 ∙ Hinech Yafa (Light in Babylon, Turkish/Persian/Hebrew folk music, Istanbul)
2018 ∙ El baile del Kkoyaruna (Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna, Nueva cumbia, Chile)
