The term world music includes

• Traditional music (sometimes called folk music or roots music) of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians or that are "closely informed or guided by indigenous music of the regions of their origin," including Western music (ie. Celtic music). Most typically, the term world music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world.
• Other non-Western music (including non-Western popular music and non-Western classical music)

World music does not include

• Western popular music
• Western Art music (ie. European classical music)