"And we have many definitions of "folksong," some of which we can even "refer back to.""
Peraps someone could put up half a dozen along with their precedence and whether they have any consensus to back them up, or so and see how they measure up?
People keep referring to other definitions but there is an ongoing reluctance to produce them.
One thing nobody can claim about '54 is that it doesn't come wit a pedigree, world wide support and masses of documentation to back it up.
Jim Carroll