'Traddies?' Yuk!

There's a picture of Peter Bellamy with a scrabble board (in the booklet of WTVE) on which are the words BLEATING BORING OLD TRADDY. As far as tastes are concerned, they don't come any more eclectic than Bellamy; I have in my keeping a video of an interview filmed in his home with the walls lined with his celebrated cassette collections with the spines spelling out entire back catalogues of rock, jazz, and folk artists. It is well reported that after gigs Bellamy would give serious scrutiny to his hosts record collections, insisting on playing some real music which was seldom revival folk. If that's what being a Traddy is then I can dig it myself, which is the same as the ICTM, which includes folk, popular, classical & urban music too. I wonder, to what extent is the term Traditional Music actually a tautology? Are there any musics which aren't traditional? If so, what are they?

The 'traddies' here generally seem to rush to the barricades only when goaded by agents provocateurs determined to prove that traditional music is the invention of the bourgeoisie, or some such nonsense.

No one said traditional music was the invention of the bourgeoisie, rather than the conditions that define it as being essentially different from other musics are a bourgeois fantasy hatched at a very significant remove from the initial context of a music which is, in fact, only different from other musics in terms of its idiom. Is saying such things being provocative? Myself, I just love the music - all music - having been raised on Pop, Northumbrian piping, Indonesian Gamelan, Plain Chant, Free Improvisation, Albanian Vocal Polyphony, Bothy Ballads, Child Ballads, Torch Ballads, Ars Nova, Prog, Post-Prog, Punk, Post-Punk, Medieval, Thrash, Hip-Hop, Industrial, Experimental, Opera, Baroque, Be-Bob, Free-Bop, Gagaku and Piobaireachd, it seems a tad limiting to use the term Traditional Music to apply to something that is no more or less traditional than anything else.