Sarah Hill

'Blerwytirhwng?' the Place of Welsh Pop Music

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Produktbeschreibung

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 necessitate the understanding of Welsh pop as part of a much larger cultural process. By surveying the development of Welsh-language popular music from 1945-2000, 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music examines those moments of crisis in Welsh cultural life which signalled a burgeoning sense of national identity, challenged paradigms of linguistic belonging, and out of which emerged new expressions of Welshness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138273337
• ISBN-10: 1138273333
• Artikelnr.: 57054788

Autorenporträt

Sarah Hill is Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: General editor's preface
Part I 'Blerwytirhwng?': Introduction
Theories of culture
Placing Welsh pop
Identifying Welsh pop. Part II A Cultural History of Welsh Popular Music: Wales before 1963: creating the culture
1963-73: locating the audience
1973-82: establishing new traditions
1982-90: breaking the mold
1990-2000: broadening the scope. Part III Case Studies: Dafydd Iwan and the new Welsh 'folk culture'
Welsh reggae: the sound of the city
Datblygu and the embodiment of Welsh pop
Y Tystion: Wales joins the hip hop nation
Dis-located: Welsh musicians in the Anglo-American market
Appendix: a brief timeline
Bibliography
Index.