"Are you saying that there are no folk songs being written nowadays"
hat's about itreally - folk is a process, not a style of writing.
'The people' in the sense I believe the the op means, no longer are pat of their cultre, just passive recipients of it.
One full time collector (35 years ago), in Ireland, wherethe tradiion as still much more apparent, if not thriving, put iperfectly whenhe described his work as "a race with th undertaker".
What we have now is a revival, so diffrent thn te groups who sing Elizabethn madrigals
Jim Carroll