Given: "In-groups" seem often to exist to promote and enjoy a like preference -- in our case, for a musical form. They also can exist for the recognition they get from the "out-groups"--and, therefore, might be observed to be "elitist" by those who might want to denigrate them by pointing out the preferences as a negative trait that is worthy of the derision the word elitist could, and sometimes does, project!

Art Thieme--