Aural Tradition has been the name chosen by the Illinois based folk organization. They champion people passing through town doing concerts in the Chicago area mostly. I've participated in their doings for since the 1980s---when they bagan. The term has nothing to do with academic folklore. It is just a clever play on words that was never intended as a way to muddy the waters. (Muddy was a bluesman ;-)

ORAL TRADITION is the folkloristic world's term used for the mechanism--the process--the transmission of the lore and the songs, the music and stuff.

Art Thieme