I claim the right to hear and help perpetuate the music of my culture. That music is, in aproximate order of its influence on me, European Classical, North American Popular,North American Big Band, English Popular, Scotish Traditional, Reggae,Latin Dance, French Traditional, Irish Traditional................. the list is endless, and in order of its influence, English traditional is the most recent! Every one of which I claim the right of including as part of my culture. I am sure I will discover many more before I die. I am a middle aged englishman born and bred and yet I have only just discovered the traditional music of the region where I live! Why should I be made to feel guilty of appreciating the music of any culture? Yes I agree that English music needs to get its politics sorted and only then is it likely to enjoy an "established" position within English culture, but to supress it in favour or other music is to "throw the baby out with the bath water" and to simply repeat the mistakes of the past. eg the Victorianisation of "Scottish" culture and the supression of Irish culture be it for political, religious or other reasons. At the end of the day we are talking about the music of the people not the ruling elite in our various societies. I find myself feeling quite anoyed that music from 2 miles down the road from where I live (eg The Watersons)has had so little influence on me in comparison to Bach, Glen Miller, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, etc etc etc (All of which I love incidentaly)What is a simple working class lad from Hull with a modest musical tallent suposed to do Mr Guest? Tell me in words of few silables cos I dont have a degree and right now I am just confused.