What is World Music? The question seems simple enough on its surface, however once you begin answering you may find it difficult to convey what it really means. That is because we think of World Music as a genre, one that you could go to a record store and find as a section between Banda and Spoken Word. Despite its name, World Music as a genre encompasses little of the world’s total music. Indeed, if it really was a catalog of “all the world’s music”, the term would be useless.
