World music is global and local music but as Farley said, defining these two words is a controversial thing. Local music is small scale but it promotes global music if the person is singing a song by Madonna or The Beetles, you cannot separate a local artists and a global song but that doesn’t make the artist global.
World music is always in English as the charts are dominated by mainly UK and US artists but they all sing in English because it’s a world known language and its function is to allow everyone worldwide to enjoy it .
American music is a global template and Shuker states its culture is imported into third world countries which waters down their culture but is also a sign on rebellion .
World music allows the creation and acceptance of local music for instance grime is now a global genre which derived from the already global genre hip hop and it’s still performed in English which contradicts Shuker’s point.
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This post is, unfortunately, very inaccurate. World music is almost never sung in English (in many ways that is exactly the point). I think perhaps you have confused the term world music with the concept of global or multinational music.
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