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Drum with scowl, struggling to grasp current genre (5,5)

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I believe the answer is:

world music

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'drum with scowl struggling to grasp current genre' is the definition.
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'drum with scowl struggling to grasp current' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'struggling' is an anagram indicator (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'to grasp' is an insertion indicator.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'drum' put after 'scowl' is 'scowldrum'.
'scowldrum' anagrammed gives 'worldmusc'.
'worldmusc' enclosing 'i' is 'WORLD MUSIC'.

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(Another definition for world music that I've seen is " Entertainment genre".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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