i can see what you mean about the roots Jim.

However
i think that the middle classes have made a significant contribution - from Sharp recording Joseph Taylor to all the things that MacColl did, and really middle class boys like The Dubliners. I'm sure they'd be pleased to be thought of as boys!

A few posts ago you mentioned someone copywrighting the Well Below the Valley. Did you mean Christy Moore - I didn't know he'd copywrited it.

The composition of society means in a way that the presnce of folk music in our society is increasingly going to be about the middle classes and their understanding of it - i think.