At last! Someone is actually questioning the ridiculous HMV Marketing Dept. definition of folk music as opposed to endlessly bitching about the 'scientific' (1954) definition.

According to the aforementioned HMV definition: 'folk music is anything acoustic, apart from 'folk rock', but excluding acoustic 'blues', 'country' or 'world music' and including military bands which don't fit anywhere else'.

But then I suppose stupidity and ignorance were always more attractive than science and common sense. Why has it taken Colin Irwin all this time to find this out?