ethnically.html - adjective (Music) (Youth Culture) Of pop and rock music: inspired by, or incorporating elements of, the native music of a particular ethnic
group . Especially in ethnic pop or ethnic rock, pop or rock music which fuses native
musical traditions with Western rock styles. Etymology: A development of the adjective ethnic in the sense 'of or pertaining to (a particular) race'; by the mid sixties the adjective was already being used in the more general sense of 'foreign', and this development is simply an application of that
sense in a particular context. History and Usage: The adjective ethnic has been applied to folk and modern music for
some decades, but the fashion for ethnic elements in pop and rock music dates from the
late seventies. The distinction between ethnic music and world music is often not clearly drawn. As majors attempt to follow Island's
commendable packaging of ethnic
music , they rely on yet another promotional push to find Africa's Bob Marley. Blitz Jan. 1989, p.
35 Shanachie, the New Jersey-based record company that
has specialized in funky international ethnic pop, recently put out two Mahlathini albums. Washington Post 15 June 1990,
section 2, p. 17