Rahere - I'll be serious for a bit...

Is it fair for non scholars / musicologists / Folklorists / etc to consider
there were parallel folk 'revivals' in the 60s & 70s...???

one of which, scattered regional pockets of working class communities
continuing to pass on and enjoy their indigenous authentic folk traditions,
being overshadowed by the more dominant middle class recreational fancy dress hobbyists...???

In my neck of the woods, the only real noticable traditions we grew up with were the autumn carnivals
which many bourgeois 'traddies' might dismiss as garish low brow concoctions of loud brightly lit
celebrations of pop culture influences...

But, then we were the grandchildren of the sons of the soil interviewed by Cecil Sharp.
Families disconected from the rural lanscape,
council estate factory wage slaves with colour tellys -
and pub skittles and darts for wage earners..

Never saw a maypole outside of primary school Ladybird books....