Man, Rick...when's the last time you were accused of being PC? LOL!!
I agree that "World" is just another classifcation, one that i'd rather the
rekkid stores made than myself. I've scored in "world" several times,
and here I am, such a Norwegian white boy that I almost qualify
as "clear" rather than white. So...America isn't part of
the world?
World= "anything not by white Americans"? Even Native American
music is lumped into the category.
I consider Clannad (Enya's family, BTW) as maybe...Pop/Irish,
although when Enya (and her sister Maire) do it, it's "new age"
If I may be so bold as to ask my fellow Moonfolk's endulgence~
Please cast your ears to a merging of the Prog/World genres,
my latest tune "Mamaya".
www.songplanet.com/zenpool
It's a feelgood, latin(ish) solo piece w/ me on all instruments,
chapman stick (my first!), flute, ac. guitar.
World, but w/ the tools o' the prog trade.
C. "Poppa Doc" Kirkendall