Party politics aside, if the accepted and widely documented definition is right doesn't that make folk music the historic voice of the working people. The subject matter and social setting of most of the songs, and the social background of most of the carriers of these songs would suggest so.
"Bascom Lamar Lunsford"
Is my memory playing tricks or wasn't it Lunsford who had a Guthrie concert cancelled because he was a 'Commie'?
Jim Carroll