I just wrote, and the machine ate, the most heated post I ever made. Perhaps it is as well. Please, please, go and read the definition and remember that all it does is set out the tests for deciding if something is or is not within the category "folk music". If you want a definition for something else, go away and write one. DOn't try to hijack the existing one.

This is not intended to imply that any form of music is better than any other. It just expresses my fury at people who refuse to answer the question asked, rather than one they would prefer to have been asked.