World music is music from across the globe, made by people of different cultures to our own. It can also be music from an artist who performs ‘local’ music which is then marketed worldwide by a major record company. Cultural Imperialism also has an impact on what we deem world music. Roy Shuker says that the ‘transmission of certain styles from dominant nation’s leads to the creation of particular patterns of demand and consumption which endorse the cultural values and ideas of their dominant origin’. He is saying that Anglo-American popular music becomes the accepted standard global template and I agree with him on that point. The reason we have the category is because there is no where else for it to go, it seems. The world music section has a variety of music genres but the only similarity between them is that they aren’t influenced by the Anglo-American style of music like so many other artists.
This is clear and succinct.
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