Folk Alley's newsletter includes this "how does he dare" notice:

What is Folk Music?:
One of Program Director Eric Nuzum's latest posts to the
Folk Alley weblog asks the question: what is folk music?
The dilemma of where folk ends and other genres, like
country or pop, take up has spurred many enthusiastic
discussions over the years. Read Eric's entire mini-
essay and add your $.02 here:

http://www.folkalley.com/archives/000183.php

Regards,

A