"This is one of those irritating statements that crops us from time to time on Mudcat, quite often from someone in the traditional folk world - this time from Dick Miles"
I am sorry you find it irritating, you are someone who puts up clips on you tube for the benefit of others, and you have no intention of making money from them, I thought you might understand. the majority of people in the UK FOLK REVIVAL play that kind of music because they love it , they do not make much money from it, and in fact would make a lot more money from playing other forms of music.
I would also put forward this argument, that modern popular music has degenerated in the last 50 years, in my opinion there seems to be much rehashing of chordal progressions and banal lyrics, but in the last 50 years, from 1963 onwards there has been even more commercialisation of popular music, the initial impact of the beatles has not been reproduced by anyone, perhaps with the exception of ian dury, we seem to be at a point where hooklines jingles and catchy riffs are the be all and end all, why? because it sells, because the machinery of promotion post beatles has accelerated many times, coomercialisation may not be the only reason, it may be that the breakdown of communities is another reason, if will fly thinks this is idiotic, Iam happy to be called an idiot like my moniker GSS