Ron Olesko
"There is a large community that shares contemporary songs and use them in the fashion that earlier generations shared their songs.   You do not have to agree, that is your choice. Folk music is a living tradition".
Where?
As far as I can see, 'folk' or 'tradition' required extensive participation in its creation, selection and performance, none of which the general population have any say in   - we have now become recipients of our culture rather than participants in it and creators of it - unfortunately our oral and musical traditions are as dead as Monty Python's parrot.
Jim Carroll