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I apologise for my somewhat ill-tempered outburst.
It really does come from many years of having been told that thinking too much about music spoils its pleasure. I don't say that was what you were getting at, but that's how I took it.
Nobody on this thread is trying to organise anything - for themselves or anybody else, we are merely responding to a question by expressing opinions.
Sorry again if I took your point wrongly.
Jim Carroll
PS It certainly was not the researchers and academics who spawned the folk industry; I'm afraid that one was down entirely to musicians who wished to make a living out of the music and didn't much care how it was represented - not all musicians, but enough to inflict a great deal of damage from which traditional music has never recovered.