I'm not downplaying the importance of tradition. Just saying that how we settle on the music we play and feel at home with isn't necessarily determined by our ancestry.

Where people choose to get into the music of the traditions their ancestors used to share, and work to revive and strengthen those tarditions, that is great. But it is a choice. It is equally open to the charge of artificiality as it would be if they concentrated on music from elsewhere and eslewhen. The fact that something can be called artificial does not mean that it is unnatural, or unwholesome.

Thedre's a parallel with music and literature - there are those who get indignant at people who persist in preferring the music or the literature of another time, as if it was somehow disloyal.