Dear Jim,
Two minutes on the internet has produced the following:-
Professor Ian Russell
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/staff/details.php?id=ianrussell
Dr Simon Keegan-Phipps
http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/simonkeeganphipps
hegemonic processes within England�s folk music industry and socio-political constructions of English national identity.
Professor Jonathan Stock
http://www.shef.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/jstock
Folk and Traditional Music BMus Honours
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/undergraduate/course/W340
The British Forum for Ethnomusicology is committed to holding regular conferences so as to provide a forum in which interested persons may share the findings of and engage in dialogue about their research.
http://www.bfe.org.uk/Committee.html
Total myth I think not. These are some of the academics who will no doubt along with others in the future spend many a happy hour analysing and often re-interpreting yours and others valuable field recordings.
john