"if a perfectly workable definition which has never been replaced still ecxists" Why on earth should anyone want to define it!? To me there are two kinds of music, music I enjoy, music that I don't. I don't need someone to stick a label on it or denigrate it because it doesn't "fit" into a "perfectly workable definition" Honestly Jim it could easily be said that precisely that way of thinking that has turned so many people, especially the young ones, away from folk music. I know you have spent many hours recording and logging the songs of the travellers amongst others and you should be thanked for that but you are also fully capable of turning people away from the very music you seek to promulgate.
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