Since I have been involved in folk(?) music and have been involved in the running of a folk(?) singaround, I have only twice (well perhaps three times but the third one was a quite strange person) come across people who have felt it their duty to tell me/us that we are doing everything wrong - singing the wrong songs / playing the wrong instruments / etc etc and in each case it was from a folk fundamentalist.

In each case they feel it important to push this message down the throats of the people who were there in a (forlorn) attempt to convert us to their doxy.

Why do they feel this need?

Might it not perhaps be better to rename what these fundamentalists do to something else rather than bothering renaming folk music which I have enjoyed (as I've understood it) over the past 40 odd years in all it's wide and wonderful forms so that I know what I am going to.

What about "Narrowfolk" as a description?