World music is something that can be argued as two completely different types of sound.
Some argue that world music must be popular music as it has to be heard all over the world. The majority of popular music is in English; it has to break the USA and England as the two biggest dominant nations and then its fed to dependent market's. Anglo-American music essentially becomes established as the standard global template.
World music could also be interpreted as everything except the Anglo American music. Music that has other linguistic lyrics that do not conform to the ‘popular’. World Music can be seen as anything that has a different or unique style from other cultures.
World music can mean simply music from around the world, music that is not simply just Anglo-American churn outs but just something as simple as sounds from other countries like the didgeridoo.
This is an OK definition of world music but it really doesn't offer any insight into why such a term has been considered necessary.
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