In my reading of David Byren’s article, I don’t believe that he actually hates world music. In fact, I do believe that David loves all music world wide and what he actually hates is the way that the western world misuses the term, world music. In his article David says that the term world music, in the West, is all the music that does not fit into our small concept of what music should look like. The west, he claims is an ethnocentric culture because the west attaches our cultural conceptions of music on all other cultures and it does not work.
David says that only listening to English speaking music and what the west has conceptualized as music is like eating the same meal day after day, we may like it and always know what we are getting,
