World music is quite simply a genre,a genre in which defines music that is 'indegenious' and does not fit into the Anglo American genre. Shuker proposes that distribution of popular music, fashions and style from dominant countries has lead to inferior countries forming a culture imperialism. This therefore leads onto Anglo American music becoming the standard global template. It was then for the 'indegenious' artist that were adamant to hold onto their culture identity that the birth of world music happened. Case studies show that this theory is outdated as we live in an increasingly globalized world where music from mixed cultures are being mixed to create fussed sounds. My view of this is that world music is a hard genre to define within the music industry it doesn't have a place in any other category, for records to sell on things such as iTunes it has to be defined for buyers to be able to search for it. Categories are simply a selling mechanism in the music industry.
You discuss some interesting and relevant points here However sometimes the slightly over complex nature of your writing style somewhat gets in the way of your argument.
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