'Composed tunes incorporated today into dance music will not become 'traditional' because it is no longer possible to forget who wrote them.
This is surely bleedin' obvious.'

The songs that have captured the public imagination in the last 100 or so years have been composed (and I suppose someone had to compose even the ones that are anon.)

I feel that my great grandparents, grandparents, parents and me should be accorded some place in this glorious tradition. Why has folk music got to be the stuff that relates to some forgotten rural idyll? Why can't it be the stuff that relates to the actual 'folk' - however impure and racially sullied you feel ourse;ves and our tastes to be.

'no longer possible to forget who wrote them.....'

Chilton Price... I'd forgotten her, if I ever actually knew.