Judy-

Thank you for your response. I basically agree with you. Just a few questions: When the Snowdens reworked a Stephen Foster tune, were they 'exploiting' his music? When blacks sang tunes composed by white musicians, were they 'appropriating' white music? If it "hardly needs to be emphazised that this is a hybridized musical culture," why the loaded phrases that imply that when white musicians borrowed from black musicians, it was somehow 'theft'?

By they way, I am only responding to your comments in this forum, not to the whole of your work. I will make it a point to read more of your writings because I only have the barest familiarity with your work.