Ruth;
In a hurry (off to see 'Kung Fu Panda and see if he has any answers).
It seems to me that unless you provide a viable alternative definition you throw our music to the media wolves (Time Out included) and let them decide what it is . Lets face it; when have the media ever got it right? Sorry, - too important for that, I'll stick to what I know. If I was prepared to let others do my thinking for me I'd probably devote my life to Amy Winehouse and Madonna (now there's a thought!).
Are you equally prepared to accept the Grocer's apostrophe and geneology? (my spellcheck tells me no).
Another problem I omitted from my previous posting and have constantly been blanked on in the past; how do you propose to deal with the mix of public domain and copyrighted material - do we accept that 'folk' no longer falls under public domain, or are our composers happy to remove their name and any claim from their compositions as a gesture of goodwill?
More later.
"anything rejected by the folk police is liable to make it."
Thought we'd managed to avoid schoolyard invective in what so far has been a fascinating and civilised discussion - pity.

Jim Carroll