The point isn't that additional contexts might not reward the reader-listener but that their absense doesn't automatically impoverish. One of the stumbling blocks for a more widespread appraisal or consumption of traditional music is that the historiographic approach is so deeply embedded in the revival newcomers can find no way in.

Fandom is perceived as especially suspect, whereas in other musics it has academic respectability.


http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/71/56