WE folkies do NOT dislike old-timey music. We love it:

Time was in the 60s that every year at the University of Chicago Folk Fest one could see from what was being played by those of us soaking up the music and trying our own hands at all of it what the "in" music of that given year might be. First, it was old-timey sting bands, then fingerpicking on guitar, then frailing on the banjo, then a capella singing, then mountain dulcimers were discovered" by us, next jug bands, followed by blues bands with locals Butterfield and Bloomfield and Charlie Musselwhite. Then cajun music, bluegrass---so many others. We learned to go back to the roots--- and we venerated those traditional experts still alive who knew we would take their handoff and run expertly with the ball ourselves if we would just listen carefully to their lead.

Yes, most of all we came away with a real appreciation for "the real thing"---rspect for the roots experts who had, before leaving, laid down the styles in the form of collected tapes made by some great collectors of folk songs. These set the norms for many of us.

Most of all, we loved and still love (NOT DISLIKE) listening to ALL the musical forms that were so generously presented to us by the expert living examples---before they passed on. They left us to carry it on and stand up for what they had preserved.

As an old-folkie, I say here and now that I love old-timey music---and most others as well. If I don't understand the WORLD MUSIC now being lionized it is possibly the result of my fires being partially banked now. It took and takes youth and those glandular secretions of that youth to pursue the artistic passions of youth.

Again, the ideas expressed in the title of this thread are just simply not true.

Art Thieme