I should clarify. Miners' welfares as such - excellent. I'm a vehement defender of Arthur Scargill, and it was most regrettable that he got outmanoeuvred by the capitalists. The welfares' function in marketing an invasive "art" form - undesirable.

The musicians who played there were not owed a living.

The idea however that if music is popular with the proletariat that makes it folk music is quite simply indefensible. It is also most curious that I started this thread with the idea of formulating a name for an inclusory range of music, so that the expression "Folk Music" was not unnecessarily corrupted in meaning, and could be used as a definition without assumptions of implications of superiority, yet the thread has been taken over by a one-man diatribe against the ruling classes, and an outpost of a class war that is hardly at all carried on elsewhere.