I haven't been looking at whatever controversies y'all are referring to, but I was thinking about music in a related way last night and now this AM, here's a thread titled right in that line of thought!

What I was thinking was, folk music is music of the blue-collared that is collected and perpetuated in many cases by the white-collared. I was thinking that here at Mudcat we, who are mostly whiter-collared than bluer-collared, are at that place in our lives where we stand with the collectors AS WELL AS the originators, and that UK folk in particular is one of the world's folk musics that is very much in that middle place-- new and old music, both folk, so it's confusing around that class issue.

THEREFORE as I skim the above posts, I'm thinking (now) that it might be helpful not to worry so much about who or what is "right," because music transcends our narrow huiman ability to agree on what is right, or even to maintain it in one's own mind as a fixed quantity because human beans have the annoying tendency :~) to keep thinking and learning even whilst arguing, hammer and tongs, about who or what is "right."

~Susan