It did not originate in a recent television show.

I first heard it on a TV show, then I heared it four more times in the following weeks. Coincidence? Odd how these things work - what goes around, comes around...

IFMC 1954.

One wonders how the ICTM view the 1954 definition now that they've changed their name? Note the current remit: to further the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music, including folk, popular, classical and urban music, and dance of all countries. I think I'll join & find out.

And this comes from someone who defended A. L. Lloyd's fabrications in a recent thread!

My only defence of A L Lloyd was that he indicated he'd messed around with the PBOEFS songs in the intro & notes; the full extent to which he did this has been explored elsewhere. I did not defend him for doing this, rather I feel a deep sense of betrayal having held the PBOEFS as sacred since I was 14. That's 34 years. I tell you, this was a bitter blow to my folk faith.

So feudalism lasted thousands of years in the British Isles?

Maybe I'm subscribing to the historical sentiment Rudyard Kipling expressed in The Land which covers 1600 years at least.