Week 4~ What is World Music & Why Does It Exist?

There is no direct definition of what World music is as everyone has their own opinion regarding it. People can enter their local music store and see a display telling them what the music store believes is World music just because they don’t speak the same languages but does that make it World music? My personal interpretation is that it’s a form of music that reaches the entire global audience. Music that may be produced in Mali or Jamaica for example that reaches outside just those countries. Modern music is actually more cultural than ever before with artists using various cultural aspects of other countries to promote their work e.g. Newton Faulkner using the sitar. The term World music only exists to stereotype ideals from a country that isn’t our own and until this is changed the term World music will be forever blurred. All music has the potential to be “world music” but the terms are always changing.