Frank, thank you for that concise description/definition of 'what folk is' - a breath of fresh air after all the puffed-up verbiage that has accumulated under this thread (and others like it).

"Folk only exists because of The Revival; it's nature and continuity is defined by it, much less the concepts thus engendered."

Here SO'P demonstrates once again that in all his rambling posts about 'what folk be' he is really only talking about folk music in England. The world is bigger than your backyard, you know.