"CSH been doing?"
If you mean Cecil Sharp House - what indeed?
Adding to the confusion of late in my opinion.
Northumberland ?
"The genre has no definitive body, and I write folk songs."
Yes it does Muskie - the fact that you don't accept that definition doesn't alter that fact one iota.
Folk song is probably one of the most researched and documented song-forms in existence - wanna list of books?
One of the great myths surrounding the subject is that the people who sang them and almost certainly made them didn't differentiate between them and other types of songs - they most certainly did and probably always have done, if anybody had ever bothered to ask them.
If you write folk songs, they are, by law, in the public domain - I take it you have no objection to my putting them out or publishing them - if you would be good enough to send me them....?
(Waits for loud bang!!
Jim Carroll