Although the term 'world music' is a made-up phrase primarily designed by record companies to enable assistants in record shop to have somewhere to put certain CDs, that dose not mean that the music has not value. I listen to lots of music in this so-called categaory and enjoy it immensely. It doesn't bother me one little bit that it's a meaningless category, at least I can find it in the record shop.

I'm more bothered about your comments about 'white middle-class journalists and DJs'. I presume by this you are referring to people like Andy Kershaw, Lucy Duran and Charlie Gillett (in the UK) whose selection of interesting sounds from around the world has added greatly to my listening pleasure.

Perhaps people on this forum would be more interested if you told us what music you do like, rather than to post here with your narrow-minded view of the many kinds of music you don't like.