Well, well. How nice to see some others supporting the concept of a definition of folk music (one consistent with other academic uses) while not using it as a badge of quality.

I've been away at Ely "FOLK" festival and alas there was comparatively little English "FOLK" - but there was a very nice "guilty pleasures" session in the beer tent late Sunday night with a good range of 60s and 70s pop songs - in some cases in forms starting to show adaptation and possibly assimilation...

There was also some very fine squeezing at breakneck speed...