What is the meaning of World Music?

The term World Music has been given credited to Rober  E. Brown, an ethnomusicologist who developed courses from undergraduate level to doctoral level in the 1960s at Westeryan University in Connecticut.
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The best defenistion for Wold music actually comes from Wikipedia…
​World music is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the world, including traditional music, quasi-traditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition intermingle. World music's inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in fRootsmagazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there". The term originated in the late 20th century as a marketing category and academic classification for non-Western traditional music. Globalization has facilitated the expansion of world music's audiences and scope. It has grown to include hybrid sub-genres such as world fusion, global fusion, ethnic fusion  and woldbeat.