'autolycus' made it perfectly clear that he wasn't asking about contemporary singer-songwriter material.

A thing I make today may survive long enough to become an antique; or it may not. It doesn't start life as an antique. By the same token, a song made now isn't folk music by traditional definitions, though it may perhaps grow into that in time.

I'm not sure what 'weelittledrummer' means by 'these people', or what definitions of 'folk music' are 'stupid' from his or her point of view.

I am glad to see that he or she don't feel that trying to define things (and thus better understand them) risks 'killing' them. I agree entirely. As for the apparent non sequitur that follows, I am still baffled by the anger and hostility that WLD expresses so regularly in discussions of this sort. What is that all about?

A little more reasoned argument and a little less of the apparently crippling chip on the shoulder might not be a bad thing.