"I can't think of a single person from the folkscene, and I must know thousands personally, who has left the folk scene because of some perception of the content. "
I can think of around a dozen clubs that closed because of the change of content - eventually hundreds closed, the magazines collapsed, the specialist shops and the labels disappeared closed

There was a major debate on the pages of several magazines, Folk Review being the instigator, covering the content, the poor standards and the general deterioration of the clubs
It stands to sense that people looking for The Flying Cloud and Tifties Annie are not going to settle for The Kinks (that and other such nonsense is what is being argued for as 'folk' here)
The scene didn't dwindle - it bombed.
What has happened in England is appalling - both in the clubs and on the academic front
We know what folk sonh is and, even if we didn't that are plenty of places where we can look
I need no 'closed mind' to state my case - you and others have told me what I can expect from today's folk clubs and it ain't folk in any shape or form

I really never thought I would see a researcher use the term 'folk police' on a discussion on definition of folk song - that is downright disgraceful
We apparently have a self-appointed research team who has taken it on themselves to dismantle over a centuries work and replace it with.... I can only assume, personal taste - nothing else makes sense
Any researcher who has to take out past workers in the field in order to get their own theories accepted are best avoided as far as I'm concerned
Jim Carroll