Not squared but softened on the corners George. My reading of recent turns goes like this: faced with some fairly damning evidence there was agreement among the more thoughtful of 1954 protagonists that the definitions didn't cover all the bases as they were written by fans; collectors, amateurs and tyros - a position it's hard to argue with.

One of the weaknesses of '54, though I'm happy to argue other fault lines, is the emphasis on transference through change. This had been left vague, deliberately perhaps in view of the consequences of pinning down what 'change' implies, but nonetheless requires a definitive and agreed unit of adaptation if Folk54 was to move beyond a late flowering of C19th romanticism and into something like a real label people can use.