Music that doesn’t fall into the category of Anglo American popular music is known as world music. World music is simply music from around the world of different cultures and languages. Music such as reggae, folk, Indian raga and Afro-beat fall under the world music category. Pop music in another language can be considered as World music even though it might have a similar sound to popular western music. The reason we have world music is because it can’t be put in any other category, classing it as world music it helps the album or record to sell. Also world music is not as popular as Western music, which dominates globally and is mainly in English. Whereas world music is only significant to people from a certain area or culture so not everyone can relate to it e.g. Afro-beat music is popular amongst people from an African native but has little significance or meaning to someone who is maybe from India.
This is mainly reasonable, although I'm not sure that reggae would be categorised as World Music.
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