The only trouble Tom, it isn't traditional.

Its not the tradition handed down to the generality of English people. It is an intellectual confection thought up to flatter glutinous taste for self absorption in the middle classes.

If y0u must call it anything - call it mid 20th century tradtional folk. Its an artistic movement which really got rolling around that time.

The English people have their sensibility and musical tastes intact and it doesn't run to modal scales, mazurkas, and medieval ballads. Someone somewhere is probably writing their folksongs, but he won't be as willfully obscure in style as the mid 2oth century traditional folk.

(d'you like the triple 'M' - just a little something I picked up off Neil Kinnoch!)