Baffled!

Why does the fact that there is music that is not folk music but which is inaccurately called folk music mean that that other music is folk music?

Why do the practitioners of that other music feel the obsessive need to be able to call it "folk music"?

With a little sensitive reading (and yes, allowing for the fact that oral transmission has been added to by non-slavish reproduction via modern tehnologies, and that a community may differ from a different community while both are still part of a third, and that communities may exist virtually and in the fleshiverse) the Karpeles definition still seems to me to work just fine.

And I repeat, if you go to pretty well any forum and re-start a well-bashed topic without apparently having any regard to the content of the previous threads you will get jumped on. Go, on, trot over to turbobricks and post "What is Somender Singh's groove theory and does it work?" or "How do I turbo my N/A car?"