There are many ways in which we can define world music. www.wikipedia.com defines world music as a term “that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music and has some kind of ‘ethnic’ component.”
I don’t think there is a definite answer to what world music is but I generally think that music is music which is all over the world not just local music in different geographical locations. However to narrow it down I do think that it is music which is predominantly mainstream and attracts the most global attention. It could also be defined as music which can be accessed easily through different forms of technology such as the Internet, through my space for example. World music could also be said to be music which isn’t British, just all other foreign music produced elsewhere in a different language. The same could be said in other countries such as France for example where they would probably categorize British music as ‘world music.’
World music exists as it shows the individuality of different cultures and societies all over the world. The collaboration of these different sounds and styles results in mass global attention which i have mentioned before.
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I would have hoped to see some reflection of our seminar discussion of the usefulness of a broad genre like world music in making previously difficult to classify sounds more commercially accessible and easily marketable.
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