" Vin Garbutt suggests calling his songs fulk music to get around the Carroll law"
More distortion Muskie
It's not my law - it isn't a "law" as you claim it to be and it certainly isn't mine - I wasn't born in 1846 when the term 'folk was first usd, I wasn't around at the beginning of the 20th century when 'folk song collecting' first got underway in an organised fashion.
Sharp wasn't in a position to consult me when he wrote 'English folk Song, Some Conclusions' and 'Folk Songs in the Southern Appalachians'
I wasn't interested in folk song in the early 1950s when the BBC embarked on its "folk song" project, nor was I invited to the Sao Paulo conference when the definition was arrived at.
Bert didn't ask my opinion when he and Vaughan Williams edited 'The Penguin Book of English Folk Song' or 'Folk Song in England'.....
It isn't a law, it's a definition - yopu wantrt to make a point - challenge that, not me.
You accuse me of lying - you could head a university course in untruthfulness, distortion and defamation
Get a grip laddie
Jim Carroll