Jeri you forgot one side..

Side 5: If anybody ever made money off of it they ain't, and nothing they ever wrote ain't, folk.

Matt R. you're confusing the use of definitions with the repression of free expression. An artist, or anybody, is free to express themselves in any legal medium they choose to use. In this house if I wanted to create a piece of visual art to express an idea or a feeling I could do so with acrylics, or watercolours, or pen and ink, or pencil sketch, or a sculpture using found objects (I just skim the stuff off of my kid's floor now and again) or papier mache or any combination of the above (collage). That freedom to express myself is not compromised or diminished if I call a watercolour a watercolour and a pencil sketch a pencil sketch.

Folk and blues music are the favoured music forms of most people on this site. That doesn't mean that all other forms of music are junk or that many of us don't enjoy a lot of different music as well. I'm glad that you like a wide range of different musical styles. I thinks its healthy and intelligent and I don't want to stop you enjoying any of them. What you like can be organized into a broad category known as music with sub categories like folk, blues, classical, rock and various sub-sub-categories if you really want. Definitions don't limit but a perceived hierarchy of worthiness attached to definitions can do so. Some people exalt one genre over others but that doesn't mean you have to or that you have to believe them and then waste time and energy trying to show how other types of music fit that one exalted form.