"She seems to have been a very mild kind of Folk Nazi."
If at all - how bloody depressing.
I never had the pleasure of meeting Elsie, whoever she was, but as far as I can see from the above links, she is/was somebody with a fairly clear idea of what she believed folk music to be - nasty-nasty woman!
I can find nothing in her postings that might not have been said by Sharp, Lloyd, MacColl, Hamish Henderson, David Buchan, Alan Lomax and the many hundreds of others misguided enough to believe they/we knew what folk music is (not to mention myself); all card holdng folk Nazis, themselves, no doubt.
I do wish people would come to terms with the fact that, while there may be Nazis who like folk music, there is no such animal as a folk nazi, policeman, fascist - all being the inventions of of those who wish to put down any opposition to their own ideas, but can't be bothered thinking through an argument, and so resort to infantile name-calling.
All this aside, the Nazis were the ones who stuck many millions of people into gas ovens, and the only thing this type of cavalier misuse of the term achieves is to trivialise the the fate of those milliuons.
Jim Carroll