It is very strange that a lot of people on this forum argue with great anger that certain contemporary songs are "folk" but some aren't. It seems to me purely class snobbery that punk is not classified as folk, but The Streets of London and Seth Lakeman's latest are within the hallowed fence.Surely, if contemporary song can be folk, than why can't punk?
   Myself, I call neither folk. But I am intrigued by the snobbery which makes some modern stuff folk, but not others.