Folk isn't quite the same as Opera in that it was only perceived to exist by those learned few who defined it as such from their lofty position of would-be erudition. Thus Folk is a theoretical construct founded on the flimsiest of pretexts with much of the evidence being falsified if only to prove a point.

You enjoy having all those imaginary enemies?

(I just discovered today just how close I've come to dying from this heart condition. I've got no intention whatever of measuring out the rest of my life in a series of Two Minute Hates, and I can't imagine why the fuck you want to).