Le Bananier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfuv2GzNF-8
One of the best concerts I went to involved an impenetrable and lengthy Avant Garde work by which time it was over I, in spite of my general openness, wanted to leave, but the next piece was a Gottschalk piece with lots of well-known American melodies which was wonderfully comprehensible in comparison. In other circumstances I might have dismissed it but in this particular context it was like water to someone dying of dehydration.
Perhaps they should mention Gottschalk simply to explain that no-one was actually confused about how to elevate the folk tradition in America...