Why does David Byrne “Hate” World music? Can you find other examples of this cultural bias in American Pop Culture? “I hate world music. That’s probably one the most perverse reason I have been asked to write about it” (Byrne 1). Those were the words of David Byrne introducing his position, feelings and attitude towards the term “world music.” The above quotation not only sets the tone of Byrnes argument, but it also represents his …showed first 75 words of 813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 813 total…to saturate the market. The artificial boundaries that “world music” and non-western films have been confined to is insurmountable, and there has not been an effort uprooted strong enough to surpass these boundaries. It is like walking on unbreakable glass. Like western pop, Hollywood is seen as the fast food for movies. It sets the criteria by which we judge today’s movies and of course the Academy Award goes where “good” movies are made.