Way too personal, Jim - I don't need the insults, not from you or anyone else. All I'm doing is a little generalising with respect of how Folk works in terms of its own agendas and notions of Tradition one one hand & Heritage on the other, assuming the two things aren't conflated. Which is fine, but there's still a cut off point between the one thing and the other, Pre & Post Revival, and all that implies.

Real Music, on the other hand, is that which exists regardless of state-funded agendas or prescriptive revival. Real Music thrives & evolves according to the deeper needs of humanity than that which first perceives then consciously preserves any given tradition. In Real Music, tradition just happens anyway, though the participants probably wouldn't think of it as such. I think that much is self-evident - so please, don't take it so personally if I point it out, I don't mean it as an insult.

The value of Revival Folk Music is beyond calculation, but it has its limits, and those limits are, one would have thought, what this thread is all about.