GUEST,buspassed wrote: "Who classes Native American Indian music as 'World Music'? Does that mean of foreign origins? Sounds like the rewriting of the Native American culture into obscurity continues!"

Well, to be fair, I think World Music is becoming more and more used as a taxonomic umbrella that covers 'folk'/'native'/'whatever'. National Geographic, for example, list British Folk under 'World Music'. Wikipedia defines 'world music' as including folk/native musics and states: Most typically, the term world music has now replaced folk music as a shorthand description for the very broad range of recordings of traditional indigenous music and song from around the world.

Whilst I have a tin-foil hat for everyday of the week myself (and ones of a heavier thickness for the night-time), I don't think the BBC are part of some conspiracy to marginalise or rewrite "Native American culture".