Actually, as far as I have ever heard, "World Music" is NOT a genre, and I have never seen it presented as a genre in the musical sense.

And to answer a rather silly question, Sir Egg, you are not required to like anything you do not like. Even if you DO like something else. The proposition is absurd on the face of it.

The only use I have heard the phrase used for is to describe a collection of ethnic music types from various roots, not necessarily related to each other. It is only meaningful in the context of the Western music marketplace, where the dominant categories are all English-speaking.

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