Jan Fairley suggests that the relationship between global and local popular music is becoming more complex in the modern era. World music can mean two different things:
1. Anglo-American pop music that can be heard anywhere. These artists are owned by multinational record labels who try to create music that will play everywhere and therefore they try to make the music similar as possible.
2. Local indigenous music that is a cultural identity. This can involve going to hear a local band at the pub. It could also be a more cultural sound for example, bagpipes in Scotland, Country & Western music in Tennessee.
These types of local music are becoming more global through the Internet and through the homogenous record labels who have recently started taking these types of music adding a more “pop beat” to it and releasing it for the whole world to hear e.g Taylor Swift.
Therefore I would suggest that world music in fact refers to all music.
While in a very broad sense you might be right that all music is from the world and is therefore world music this is so wide that it is effectively meaningless.
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