"(so in the this context "second revival") concern."
I would have become very rich if I had been given a pound for every time a veteran traditional singer or musician said "the tradition was ruined when music appeared on the scene"
You want to know how much of an issue money was with traditional singers - go find out how many of the thousand or so singers the BBC recorded were paid for their time or generosity - go find out how many of the performers bothered even to ask for payment.
To me, it is incredibly cynical to claim that people made and sang songs just for money
The folk revivals in Britain and America took place to escape the commerciality of the music scene and virtually everybody who became involved did so for free.
We had our professionals, sure we did, but the best of them dedicated their lives to the music, not their careers (I was a lifelong beneficiary of one of them)
What is a new (and probably the most disturbing) aspect of the modern   scene are the far-too-many people coming in with careers in mind.
The refreshing thing about the Irish music scene is the thousands of youngsters flocking in for the love of the music
Good luck to them if they make a few bob out of it, but the ones I know couldn't give a toss whether they do or not - they love the musc and that's what counts
If you want to see the end result of moneterising music you just have to look at how the Music Industry did a runner from 'The Folk Boom' and left us in peace to do it for the love of it.
Jim Carroll