[eru]

> [...] what you will not find on those continents is a dominant cultural practice of explaining the inherent superiority of their own musicking.

Citation needed. Africa and Asia (including India) are fairly big places, and they also have some peoples with very high opinions of themselves and their cultural legacy. I don't know enough, but my null hypothesis would be that until proven otherwise, I would expect that to extent to music as well (and not just literature or cuisine etc, where I definitely know it's happening.)

[PaulDavisThe1st]

It's not about whether there are individuals who feel that way. It's about whether that opinion/attitude has become baked into institutions that play key gatekeeping roles in those societies. One big difference in those countries is that music tends to be(not exclusively anymore, but historically) learned via apprenticeship, a social structure that reduces the scale and scope of "music school" type institutions.