Right, I'm off to see if my students have had this much help with their homework and whether they've declared it (hint: lecturers know about the internet.)
Though possibly by referencing this lively discussion, and Melnet itself, Jake may be able to link folk traditions, some modern experience, and the work of contemporary artists. All the various flavors of musicians and performers (professional, semi-professional, hemi-semi professional . . . amateur) commenting and contributing here constitute the contemporary. The tradition(s), however defined, are what we're participating in, and propagating, and that's the historical part of the thing. And the medium, mostly typing, is a 21st century equivalent of an oral tradition. As for using the internet . . . well, he's not just cutting and pasting chunks of Wikipedia, which I think is the more common problem.