By Ivory Tower I take it, Mr Red, you mean too detached from the real troubles and challenges of the world. Can't see it myself.

Not to be confused with managing to find a way to cease being concerned with the various trivialities that are used as a way of distracting people from the real troubles and challenges of the world.

Wherever it happens, folk music can help in doing that latter thing. And that's a way of starting to do something about it.