foreign music

[smc]

It's nice to know that people are listening to music from everywhere, but I feel compelled to point out that calling music other than American "foreign music" just isn't right. Just because it's foreign to Americans doesn't make it universally foreign. That's why "world music" is a good term, and is generally used. It can be all-encompassing, individually defined, and crosses borders (and since this is a Forum, overall, where borders are crossed all the time we ought to embrace the term). Plus, it allows for the combinations that are sparking such a creative outpouring from musicians. I've been listening, for example, to a Sri Lankan guitarist who grew up in St. Louis and plays/sings great songs that sound somewhat like Delta Blues from Mississippi. American blues come from Mali in Africa. How could that be labeled simply "foreign" as in "not American"?