Musket said
> Thats the thing with genre, its what it is, not what you wish it to be.

That doesn't prevent some people here from loudly asserting their respective, and conflicting, ideas of what they think it is. "I'm right. You're wrong and you're a ."

Talk about flogging a dead horse. We've long passed the point at which anyone's argument has any chance of changing anyone else's mind, even those whose minds weren't closed before we started.

FWIW I personally have some sympathy both with those who recognise the fact that the term "folk song" now has a wide range of meanings (at least to some people) and with those who would prefer it kept with its narrower meaning and new term(s) found for the other kinds of song.