World music is different from both international music and local music. I believe that international music is music or artists that are popular in the majority of countries around the world. Local music is music that has not yet broken through into the rest of the world, such as bands that play in their local pubs and clubs. World music is different all together, it is music that is traditional to a country or culture. This may include Indian raga music and Japanese koto music etc. In music shops there is often a seperate section for World music similar to the World cinema section for films. World music has influenced many popular artists, and is often included in popular tracks we hear in the charts today. Some artists styles combine popular genres with world music such as the band Skindred which is a reggae-rock band.
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This is a reasonably good assessment of some of the genres that contribute to the world music moniker but, while you comment that many shops have a world music section you could have said a little more about the economic imperative to group together 'ethnic' genres that would otherwise be difficult to pigeon hole.
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