McGrath,

Gossip, rows, and feuds and the reason that laws exist in the first place--not that they often provide the protection that is intended-

I will allow as I seem a bit litigious--and perhaps a bit of a hothead--I like to play and teach music, and I don't even mind that from time to time, I have to produce my own concerts or start my own classes--I do mind when people go out of there way to prevent my stuff from happening--

I have recently moved away from nearly twenty years residence what is laughingly referred to as a major American city, where the artistic/cultural community (including folklore/folklife academics, artists, dance companies, theater groups, and public broadcasting outlets, and funders) were in continuous turf wars--

I created a class for blues guitarists at the performing arts school where I was teaching, and my executive director called me one day to tell me that someone from the Folklore Department at nearby prestigious University had called to demand that I be immediately replaced with one of their graduate students, because I was not "entitled" to teach blues guitar--

I stayed on, but all of our school's special events announcements were suddenly dropped from the University community radio station, never to re-appear--