When I go into HMV, I notice that the cd's labelled under the genre as world music are all exclusive to a specific country which is essentially folk music. Genres such as Irish, country and Arab music is present in this section. Does this mean that World Music is music that is one which is exclusive to one country? I think it is music which is not affected by cultural imperialism and one that is not universally popular. It might be a genre which doesn't fit in with the global template of Anglo-American pop music.
World music can be seen as authentic cultural music which is what I tend to vision it as. Its traditional music from countries globally which is why HMV may decide to label folk music as world music. The function of world music is to keep us all close to our cultural roots and where we came from. Pop music does not strictly fit in with world music as a genre as pop music appeals to the masses while world music may be seen to be just a local thing.
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This post expresses some interesting ideas but also raises the question of why HMV chose to label these distinct genres in this way?
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