This morning on the ride to work I listened to Malicorne, Cream, Genesis, Jethro Tull, The Beatles, Telynor, Ranarim, and a nyckelharpa recording (don't remember the player's name). Oddly, I like all this stuff, play all this stuff, and still like the 1954 definition. Let's see, Malicorne had both trad music and not trad, Cream had some old blues (trad enough for me) and some new blues (borderline), Genesis and Tull are straight-ahead prog rock, with great songwriting. The Beatles are unabashedly pop, with many of the songs so widely played in so many styles that they may as well be folk, at least according to most. Telynor and Ranarim all trad, with both trad-sounding and modern-sounding arrangements. The nyckelharpa tunes are all hard-core Swedish trad, except that the composer is known for a lot of that material.

Aren't definitions fun?