"Traditional folk and contemporary folk are both folk."
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Arguable, to say the least. In the case of the former, it is so by definition. In the latter, however, it is so because someone has chosen to say it's so. A fine example of [in the true sense of petitio principii] the perverse debating trick known as "begging the question": ie assuming the truth of what is to be established as part of one's initial argument.

What we are discussing is, in fact, whether "contemporary folk music" is, in a meaningful sense, folk. So Musket's above statement is self-evidently a bit of tail-chasing obscurantism. Isn't it?

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