"That wound the old bugger up.."
No it didn't - it just convinced me I was dealing with a pratt!
If some eejit sings Nessun Dorma at a folk club it still remains an operatic aria - try telling an opera buff it's a folk song and see how far it gets you!
A folk song becomes a folk song because of its origins, the process it passed through, the people it once served and the position it once held in society - that's what makes it what it is.
We put labels on things so we know where to look when we fancy that particular flavour - same as why we don't ask for "drink" when we fancy a whiskey or "food" when we feel like a curry - never gets more complicated than that.
There Steve - now we can go about our normal business!
Jim Carroll