The idea of "World Music" can be determined under two meanings. The first portraying the idea of world music being viewed as something of a multi cultural entity, where all conceivable elements of music from around the world, not just in English speaking countries, are distributed and listened to on a global scale. These elements of music can be formed by any genre and usually have more of a cultural nature as to how they sound.
The second idea of world music could be viewed as music that is controlled and exported by the general media of usually the USA and UK as the English speaking media impacts the world on a global scale. The result of this concept generates a world music of almost global domination where many countries adopt pop music ect. as their main music which somewhat robs them of making music suited to their own culture. The USA is particularly influential in this matter as the drive to "sing American" is something that affects many non-American music artists developing music.
I think that the first definition is World Music, while the second is Global music. These are two very different things.
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