Folk music was, for a long-time popular - the music of the people - but what has come to be accepted as pop-music is something quite different: belting, more-often in one's head-voice, less earthy, miming, showing taut-toosh, if you'll pardong my French, etc.
And as for The Imagined Village, I'd genuinely rather imagine a proper English pub, in a proper English village, with proper English music...a clog-dancer by my side, a glass of mead in hand, and a stottie stuffed with chips and red-sauce on the table...and, out of the window, snow falling on swans as they glide gently by a river-licking weeping-willow...(further to poem # 72 MILLENNIUM DREAMS)