world song

world song (plural world songs)

1. (music) A song from the genre of world music.
   • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist‎^[1], number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:

     Later, during an evening concert, Lomax was discussing a group of former convicts who were chopping wood and hoeing in time to world songs.

   • 2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally, →ISBN, page 214:

     However, more recent publications include world songs as a matter of course along with folk songs […]