In every era there is a disdain for the "new" music..Jazz was "evil"....rock, "evil" or "mundane" or "doggerel" or whatever.

I was never one to be "folkier than thou" because I recognized that cultural patterns in music are attributable to cultures or sub-cultures that are homogeneous to some degree. It's impossible to be a musical snob when you consider that one form of music evolves from another.

But to a significant point for me, music is not an exclusive club. The musicians who make it so limit their artistic options and deny the social aspects of music as being important.