Guest's comments seem very short-sighted - in fact, I hope they're just a wind-up.

If you're talking about the "purity" of West European traditions, what about Flamenco? Surely its Moorish/Arab influences are only too obvious? And, yes, there are quite a few white people in the MOBO listings each year - the acronym specifies music of black ORIGIN.

And if the anthropologists have it right, we're all ultimately of African origin anyway.