glueman, I agree that regular people don't listen to music because of some academic sense of what folk music is. They don't even listen to it because, as you so rudely say, it's full of belligerent old buggers who make it a kind of test. You keep saying things like this, and your comments are not supported by any real world facts. This is the whole point: people listen to and play what they like. No one I know applies any kind of test to any piece of music they are thinking about playing other than the test of whether or not they like it.

I'm sorry if I feel inquisitorial to you, but if you are going to say that people are applying some kind of traditional test to music before they decide to play it or listen to it, I'm going to call you on it. If you can't support your statements with any evidence, you should stop making them, especially since your mode of conversation is to say things about others in such negative terms.