Music has always been world music, it’s not just old concert pieces from dead men of the past. Here we like to think of world music as music from outside the United States, but in other countries we become the other people, we become the world music to them or at least part of it. My dad when I was growing up listened to a lot of jazz. He grew up in south Louisiana, moved to north Louisiana and then finally moved to Texas, so he grew up in a culture of jazz. We always had some kind of it playing, now that I think back, but it was from all over. European jazz, Chinese jazz, big band jazz, and they were all jazz but they were all very different. The United States is such a diverse country that to let kids go through school and not learn about
