Sorry missed S'O'P's posting.
Whatever flights of fancy SO'P cares to take us on with his non-definition romp (never amounted to more than a list of differing and apparently random musical genres as far as I can see), the fact remains that in order to be persuaded to get up off their bums and go along to the local folk club, people have to know what they are being offered. A badly performed magical mystery tour might persuade the odd punter to poke a nose round the door, they might even bring their mates along a second time for a laugh - rather like the Sunday day trip to Bedlam; but it isn't going to attract the long-term performers and listeners that the music desperately needs to survive.
I know this from seeing the audiences dissipate in the eighties in London, and from the fact that concentrating the mind on the music over here has turned the situation round dramatically, so that we can be confident that it will survive for at least another two generations.
Trying to rewrite, or even throw away the dictionary drove most of our audiences away and persisting with the chaos that was left behind ain't going to bring in any replacements.
Jim Carroll