The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101751   Message #2055303
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
18-May-07 - 04:29 AM
Thread Name: 'Anglicana' - is this a new word?
Subject: RE: 'Anglicana' - is this a new word?
Anglicana was released five years ago and Eliza C said at the time that she'd used the word deliberately to define music rooted in but not exclusively derived from the English tradition. A glance down the list of musicians and tunes explains exactly what she means.

The term also, obviously, serves to put distance between wifty-wafty Celticness and US-influenced snigger-snoggerness which retailers tend to shove under the f*lk umbrella, and encourage them to create a space in their racks dedicated to English trad or trad-inspired music.