Editing Worldbeat (section)

===Distinction relative to world music===
Worldbeat, [[world fusion]] and global fusion are hybrid genres that have evolved under the [[world music]] genre. Their most prominent feature is an obvious meld between pop and indigenous culture, which often causes them to be indistinguishable from one another.<ref name="colorado"/>

Contemporary genre hybrids with world music elements naturally proliferate in proportion to the globalization of music culture. In music catalogs, hybrid genres are often only given the database choice of "world", thus the perception of what can define world music has evolved to include pop influences.<ref name="colorado"/>

There is disagreement whether all pop and traditional music hybrids exhibiting prominent ethno-influences, such as worldbeat, belong under the world music umbrella.<ref>{{cite web|last=Burns|first=Stuart Ian|date=April 16, 2004|title=Origins of World Music|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2526815|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621220533/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2526815|archive-date=June 21, 2011|website=BBC}}</ref>