Here is your new homework assignment, Amethystos:
Write a "book-report" on this PhD thesis:
https://roehampton.openrepository.com/roehampton/bitstream/10142/324378/1/YIANNATHESIS.pdf
and post it here no later than Friday 23 Jan. Points WILL be taken off for lateness (heh heh heh)
The reason why it is your responsibility to review this thesis (heh heh heh) is because the thesis cites this passage from Nettl:
"At the root of the concept of uniting nation and musical style is the idea that a nation’s folk music must somehow reflect the inner characteristics of that nation’s culture, the essential aspects of its emotional life - its very self."
And I believe this quote is very similar to something you have said here yourself ...