" I don't think there's anywhere in my post where I'm suggesting cookery demonstrations are folk nights!"
But you are suggesting "opera arias or what ever else floats the boat " are.
"I think it's fairly obvious that I'm using the 1954 definition as a shorthand for traditional music "
And I have made clear throughout that I am not suggesting in any way that definition of tradition has nothing to do with my argument "opera arias or what ever else floats the boat" again.
"and I see it as a simple fact of life not worth getting stoked up about."
And I see it as selling out to the pap the revival was set up to escape from.
The idea was to introduce traditional music and encourage the creation of new songs using what we learned from them - not create a backdoor into the big-time
It's only inevitable if we are prepared to sell out to the money-men and wannabes
"Amature reporting" of what - no consensus certainly
Must catch the post
Jim Caroll