World music is normally music that is outside the ‘normal Anglo American’ sphere. World music is what we class as music that is not spoken in the English language, for instance record shops categories world this way, as it is spoken and produced in another part of the world. People from other culture would see our music as world music due to the language barrier and the cultural differences from different parts of the world.
World music exists because music is a world wide business and an interest and passion to many people. If there was no passion for music it would not be made, people make music to represent there thoughts and feelings on where they are from or even issues that are happening within their culture. World music is hard to define in many ways, however depending where you live and where you are raised, you will class world music as music that is not sung in your spoken language and that comes from a different country.
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While I take your point about the relative location of the audience, surely part of the reason why the category exists is because Anglo-American popular music has come to be seen as a global form in itself. Beyond this, your analysis of World music is a little simplistic. Language does play a part but would you consider a Johnny Cash recording in German to be World music?
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