Shuker stated that global and local music are different perspectives on the same process. I feel that world music is categorised differently by different people and there fore it does become a matter of perspective. Stores which sell music throw all kinds of music into the generalised category of 'world music', from folk to tribal. Western music adopted aspects of world music to include in their own musical creativity.
I feel that what was once secluded to a particular region has been adopted by mainstream music. This has led to world music transending from local to global. prime examples of this are The Beatles using the Sitar and Paul Simon collaberating with Ladysmith Black Mumbaso on an album greatly influenced by local African sounds.
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All of this is a reasonable take on the transition from local to global but it doesn't really address the question of why a category such as World music exists in the first instance.
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