Crikey - the last sentences of my 6:11 post ("IS it blues? I dunno, maybe not, even you assume that the canon is closed. Is it? Maybe not, if you assume up front that only black folk can do blues.") got bargled up in an apparent insufficiency of caffeine.

Shoulda said something like "Is it blues? Dunno, guess it depends on whether you believe the canon is closed, or the definition is sometihng like 'Blues are what's played by [black] blues guys and we know they're blues guys because they're black and play the blues.' "