"The Folk Revival Trilogy replete with its prissy bourgeois sensibilities and proceeds to miss the point,"
Why do you spoil everything you have to offer with prattish statements?
I would guess the revival introduced virtually all of us on this forum, directly or indirectly, to folk songs and ballads. I was lucky enough to see Jeannie Robertson, Margaret Barry, Michael Gorman Felix Doran, perform, at The Keele Folk Festival, a revival event. They all appeared to be enjoying it just as much as I was
And then there are those I heard thanks to the 'revival' clubs: Joe Heaney, Seamus Ennis, The Stewarts, Lizzie Higgins, Betsy Whyte, Duncan Williamson, Bobby Casey.....
MacColl, the great revivalist, introduced me to 137 of the Child Ballads that I wouldn't otherwise have heard; Lloyd threw in a few score more.
Over the last thirty years the clubs have provided us with a platform to give many of the traditional singers we met with a wider audience. Walter Pardon loved performing at them; Mikeen McCarthy and Mary Delaney were in their element.
And then there's all those other revival performers who have given me so much pleasure over near a half century; Kevin Mitchell, John Lyons, Gordeanna McCulloch.......
Without wishing to remind you of past gaffes - I very much doubt if I would have heard a siingle one of these if I had accepted your definition - how did it go again?
I also doubt if many of the above singers would have been given a look-in at any of the clubs that adhere to your non-definition.
Your vendetta against the revival is as tiresome as it is vacuuous; give it a rest.
".... the word Folk; best we be wary of it too."
The Ballad and The Folk, Folk Song in England, Folk Songs of the Upper Thames, English Folk Songs - Some Conclusions, The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection........ Now where did I put the paraffin and matches - that should keep us warm in this cold weather.
Jim Carroll