well (with all respect) - there you have your recipe for disaster and how you've whittled down membership of your gang.

English literature went through a similar crisis at the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century. Poets were writing 'in the the tradition'. They called themselves neo -Georgians, pre Raphaelites etc - it all came down to the same thing -namely eschewing the voice of the 'folk'.

Luckily we got a break and TS Eliot and others kicked us into the language of the 20th century..

Folk music is located with the 'folk' - just as the sky is located above us. Nothing the Pope or some committee of experts decree will change that.