"So, if my "good" differs from your "good", who's to say which is more deserving? "
I've been trying to avoid my personal tastes as a reason for my belief in what is important
My point remains unanswered - if the majority population of these islands are considered unable to produce anything culturally - and if examples exis of how "good" and important their culture can be, this is, as far as I am concerned, grounds enough for positive discrimination when making this material accessible.
As it is, whether is is sellable appears to be the deciding factor.
I can think of no example in modern pop- music that comes anywhere near the examples I mentioned, either in skill or in cultural significance.
One of the features of all the singers we recorded is that they learned their songs in their youth and thirty, forty, fifty years later they were still singing them (to whoever asked them)
Jim Carroll