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Is this an actual legitimate genre of music? I'm not quite sure what to think because I've never heard of such a genre. There might be references somewhere but will they intend that this is an actual subgenre of folk music? or music in general? When I searched "industrial folk music" I was expecting this to redirect to neofolk or even have an article on a merge of industrial music and folk rock. The reason why I thought it would redirect to neofolk is because the genre makes use of industrial music to an extent so I was expecting this to redirect there. I was confused when I saw actual references to industrial worker songs thinking the "industrial" part was the industrial music genre. Maybe a hatnote should be added for neofolk maybe? FireCrystal (talk) 02:50, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The genre is legitimate, although the title is harder to pin down. This article needs to be rationalised to fit with the one on work songs, some in-line citations to support the term and a general clean up, which I will undertake as soon as I can. As suggested above a hatnote is probably the best solution to prevent any confusion, with a redirect to neo-folk.--Sabrebd (talk) 07:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
