Stu, thank you for the Ian Anderson definition of world music. He has oft been criticized for 'inventing' his 'marketing' term of 'world music' and being so stupid that he doesn't get what he is doing in the historic context of British imperialism.

"Folklore" was a means used by British and American academics--first as 'antiquities' scholars, and later as 'folklorists' and 'anthropologists' in particular, to destroy the cultures being bulldozed by British and American imperialism. These scholars 'saved' (many would say looted) folk songs as cultural artifacts from the peoples being conquered, in the same way that material cultural artifacts were stolen and put in the Smithsonian and the British Museum.

Not everyone thinks that was A Good Thing for the conquered peoples. So for Ian Anderson to "name" the indigenous music of the former and current colonies at all is considered pretty racist and imperialist by some.

Not anyone in this forum, mind you, but then, these are the "folk" who don't get any of this sort of cultural criticism anyway. Because they bloody well don't want to gt it.