"Surreysinger - I didn't have to look up 'dullard,' and I think only a dullard or a bigot would call someone with 4 technical certificates and a degree in humanities a dullard."

This is really pretty limp, David. Your technical certificates and degree do not qualify you to speak on matters of ethnomusicology, which is the field you are trying to lay down rules and laws for. When you are wrong, you are wrong, no matter how many degrees and certificates you can wave about. Even if you had a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology, you would still be wrong if you kept on saying what you're saying.

And whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not, the person who says "I have nothing against (insert ethnic or national group). In fact, I like them very much. But I just don't want them living next door to me," is a bigot, no matter how vociferously they try to deny it.

Volgadon, sing whatever you want to sing. And enjoy!

Don Firth