I'd just like to confess that for the purposes of this thread I was GUEST, The Observer; fully intending a light-hearted parody of the other GUEST, The Observer threads but unwittingly realising something with substance! If I'd been more observant I'd have noticed that in genuine GUEST, The Observer threads it's v rather than vs, but otherwise a good thread all in all.

So then, to what extent, if any, is Folk Music the music of an actual Folk other than folkie Folk, whose actuality is compromised by their adoption of objectivist methodology entirely at odds with the subjectivist criteria of actual Folk, thusly perceived? Well, as is becoming clear from this & other threads, not to any great extent at all really!

Does this matter? Not to me it doesn't, although I'm still losing sleep over as to how long I can go on calling it Folk Music!