Jim, I'm no academic musicologist - I'm just an ex council house kid
who somehow managed to pass the 11 plus 45 years ago...

I'm certainly not a scholar either - I turned my back on all that over 25 years ago
[when I was unable to complete a post grad dissertation due to recovering from an operation,
and mounting debt from having to live off a credit card until I was back up on my feet again...].

So clearly 'hundreds of thousands / millions' is a tongue in cheek edumacated guesstimate..


However, seriously, my 'intuition' garnered from 4 decades of wide reading of music journalists and critics,
points to 'contemporay folk' as being a more than adequate generally accepted term amongst music enthusiasts..

Just google 'contemporary folk' for an indication of it's immediate current usage...
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