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'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music (Paperback)
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'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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In the 1960s, Welsh-language popular music emerged as a vehicle for
mobilizing a geographically dispersed community into political
action. As the decades progressed, Welsh popular music developed
beyond its acoustic folk roots, adopting the various styles of
contemporary popular music, and ultimately gaining the cultural
self-confidence to compete in the Anglo-American mainstream market.
The resulting tensions, between Welsh and English, amateur and
professional, rural and urban, the local and the international,
necessitate the understanding of Welsh pop as part of a much larger
cultural process. Not merely a 'Celtic' issue, the cultural
struggles faced by Welsh speakers in a predominantly Anglophone
environment are similar to those faced by innumerable other
minority communities enduring political, social or linguistic
domination. The aim of 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop
Music is to explore the popular music which accompanied those
struggles, to connect Wales to the larger Anglo-American popular
culture, and to consider the shift in power from the dominant to
the minority, the centre to the periphery. By surveying the
development of Welsh-language popular music from 1945-2000,
'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop examines those moments of
crisis in Welsh cultural life which signalled a burgeoning sense of
national identity, which challenged paradigms of linguistic
belonging, and out of which emerged new expressions of Welshness.
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