"No Way has evolution excluded the possibility of a true cultural revival."

The folk make different music now, because it's what *they* want to do. People make home-made music in their bedrooms all the time. Kids create new traditions that grow and evolve and have a real community basis. Folk music is essentially a cultural anacronism. It's a fun one with all kinds of interesting history attached, but it died out because the folk didn't want to do it any more. They chose to do other things instead. And they're still doing those other things quite happily, many *in the context of their local communities*. Kids should have the opportunity to learn about their folk arts heritage at school and we aught to be able to access the archives to this common heritage easily too, because it's a valuable part of understanding our own cultural and social history. But history is what it is. You're bodging together together 1960's ideology with pre-industrial revolution traditional arts, and attempting to impose that hybrid on contemporary society which - last time I looked - is far too busy with the business of evolving myriad new musical cultures and creative movements to be likely to want to stop and turn the clock back now. The only way that's going to happen is a) if we get some ideologically fanatical dictator in power who crushes all new music and arts with a jackboot, or b) if the only thing left standing after WWIII is Cecil Sharp house.