If you take the view that, since 'posh people' or 'academics' wrote it, it must be a load of bollocks which patronized the working class, then you're condemning ethnomusicology, sociology, anthropology and who knows what else to the bin as well.

Maybe I am at that, Brian. But one would at least hope that the thing itself is of greater validity than the academic study of it, and that the academic disciplines you mention are at least aware of the ethical issues arising from one lot of human beings aspiring to the heady heights of objectivity which will somehow enable them to study another lot. Again one is reminded of Alfred Kinsey and his team who in their study of human sexuality themselves became impotent.

And the more I read of this discussion, the more I lose the will to folk...