[coldtea]

>Fair point; that's partly my own bias (I know basically nothing about non-Western musics)

Well, let's expand this: how many do in the area HN has the majority of its readers (I presume US and, maybe, Europe)?

I happen to know about a couple of non-western music traditions (because of my geography).

But it's not like those are mainstream or even merely somewhat popular outside of the areas where they are a tradition. It's not like the Austrians listen to ragas, or the Chileans to balkan polyphonic choirs (some might, but then again if we look enough, some would also listen to noisecore or renaissance lute tunes).