The Grammy Awards change world music category to global music

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Ok back to what I was doing. 

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5 minutes ago, Doily Skull said:

It’s better. Just cuz y’all don’t understand doesn’t mean it isn’t relevant.

Genuinely curious, what's the difference? Because the world is "the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features." and global is "relating to the whole world; worldwide."

As far as I can tell, the difference is so tiny that it's feels like a cop-out for Grammies and it lets them pretend that they're inclusive.

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40 minutes ago, JustinTrudeau said:

Genuinely curious, what's the difference? Because the world is "the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features." and global is "relating to the whole world; worldwide."

As far as I can tell, the difference is so tiny that it's feels like a cop-out for Grammies and it lets them pretend that they're inclusive.

I don’t think it’s my place personally as a white person to question whether or not “world music” has a colonialism vibe, and if “global music” is an acceptable replacement. “World music” has the connotation of homogeny - that we’re all one, we’re all the same, etc., which arguably ignores the fact that not all cultures are the same at all. “Global music” gives an international vibe, that there’s a blend of cultures, that we’re all people but we all have so many different stories. The difference is that it’s inclusive to someone somewhere, and whether or not I consider it acceptable is arbitrary. 

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1 hour ago, JustinTrudeau said:

Genuinely curious, what's the difference? Because the world is "the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features." and global is "relating to the whole world; worldwide."

As far as I can tell, the difference is so tiny that it's feels like a cop-out for Grammies and it lets them pretend that they're inclusive.

The term "world music" specifically describes "traditional music from non-western countries". The aspect that's relating to colonialism here is that the terms comes from ex-colonialist societies to describe the "weird, other cultures" that are not within the Western Hemisphere. 

I think the move to "Global Music" is there to signify not only them trying to get rid that perceived residual linguistic waste of colonialism, but also opening up the category more towards international pop music, and I highly suspect that this is gonna be highly beneficial to K-Pop artists at the Grammys.

However, we all have to see how this actually plays out in reality, because that's all just speculation and educated guesses.

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24 minutes ago, Doily Skull said:

I don’t think it’s my place personally as a white person to question whether or not “world music” has a colonialism vibe, and if “global music” is an acceptable replacement. “World music” has the connotation of homogeny - that we’re all one, we’re all the same, etc., which arguably ignores the fact that not all cultures are the same at all. “Global music” gives an international vibe, that there’s a blend of cultures, that we’re all people but we all have so many different stories. The difference is that it’s inclusive to someone somewhere, and whether or not I consider it acceptable is arbitrary. 

It just change a name, change a vibe, different musicians from different culture background still need to competes with each other for only one category, nothing really change.

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Me trying to avoid the same word repeatedly in an essay

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13 hours ago, OBO said:

It just change a name, change a vibe, different musicians from different culture background still need to competes with each other for only one category, nothing really change.

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Colonialism now: 📉📉📉

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Why not 'Earthly'? 

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17 hours ago, JustinTrudeau said:

The change symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk, and 'non-America'

A departure from "folk" and "non-America"?? And the word "global" suddenly fixes that? Wtf