No, Jim ~ you are not allowing there for children's songs and football chants: both of which genres have as much right to be called 'folksongs', 'traditional songs', or what-you-will, & which haven't stopped being created, varied, developed.... They are sung on special occasions {at the match, playing in the playground} which aren't going to be replaced by telly-watching as were the Travellers' evenings when previously [as you relate] the would have sung.

So how about that then for a negative response to the thread title?