I'm much more into modern Nigerian music than I am into "folk" stuff, but I do nevertheless have an appreciation for it. (It's probably more "anthropological" too, though... I mean, I don't throw on stuff like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2b9UIZTTOo

or this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmyWMp-NY2A

when I'm chilling in the crib on a Saturday afternoon.

The quote by me that lonesome_d cited was specifically referring to the American (and European) folk "scene" of the 1950s and 60s rather than "folk musics" in general. Though if I really think about it, the reason that I am not heavy into that kind of music is the same reason that I am not too deep in to many Nigerian folk musics: I just don't identify with the world they are describing.