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World music and folcloric/roots music Genres

AOTY should include other cultures music genres, and not only commercial ones — most importantly historically existing folcloric music around the world, since the “folk” tag is usually associated to north western acoustic/roots music.

For instance, Fado, Pimba, Canto Alentejano and Tuna are portuguese folcloric music genres that do not fit into any tag.

This obviously becomes a really extended list if you thing about all of the music genres in Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian, Chinese culture, and the list goes on — and this perpetuates the problem of the best-of lists of each year becoming almost english speaking from top to bottom.

There should be way of adding new genres when approved by an X number of users.

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