World music is the combination of 'local' and 'global' music by the music industry. One of the main types of what is seen as world music came from when Anglo-American popular music essentially became established as the accepted global template and language for music. Then the globalisation of music and of America means that musicians try to make their music sound American no matter where they come from.
On the other hand, Deanna Robinson, Elizabeth B Buck and Marlene Cuthbert suggest that "world music homogenisation is not occurring but rather that international and local sounds are being fused to create heterogeneous 'world music'".
Based on these views my conclusion of 'World Music' is that it is Indigenous music that has been taken by a multinational company, adapted, produced, circulated and distributed world wide and listened to all over the worlds by different types of people.
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