"why do YOU care what anyone calls it?"

I don't. Couldn't care less, truly. I'm responding to the OPs question. My position is the communal pleasure business has to come first, with everything following from that. SS appeared to imply - and I don't want to put words in his mouth - 1954 had run its course as a description of what happens now in the name of folk, if you feel traditional music and folk music are synonymous.

My impression is even those with a laissez-faire or populist attitude to folk do not decry the '54 framework as a definition of strictly traditional music - but that's a different question.