Folk music’s rise triggered an open critic feud between rival publications

Evidence

In early 1960, the Voice’s forty-ish jazz critic Bob Reisner wrote a mock irate manifesto on the “menace” of folk music, complaining that “the humble, monotonous, skimmed-milk folk song is pushing classical and jazz records out of homes.” A week later, a younger New York Times music critic, Robert Shelton, published a genuinely angry rejoinder to Reisner’s “exercise in Philistinism, illogic, snobbishness, and misinformation.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 274