the 'process' has not died, but continues in a different way

I don't know why you say this, other than that you want to believe it. Do you live in a world where ordinary people sing while they work and sing around the fire (or around the piano) when they get home? I don't. That's the society in which the folk process flourished, just as a society with horse-drawn transport is the society in which blacksmiths made a living.