Meanings
nounworld song (plural world songs)
plural world songs
- entertainmentA song from the genre of world music.
However, more recent publications include world songs as a matter of course along with folk songs […]
2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally, →ISBN, page 2141 more example
Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.
1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11
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