The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21756   Message #234168
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
26-May-00 - 07:06 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat protocol: is nasty OK too?
Subject: RE: Mudcat protocol: is nasty OK too?
Oh, I'm far from Welsh, Rick. London Irish, now Harlow Irish.

Glad you like the songs.

"It's a bit wearing when people go on about Celtic music when they actually only mean Irish and Scottish." (sian) -I don't like the term Celtic music. As sian says,normally when people use it they mean Gaelic music, and that's a better term, because there's a commonality between Scottishn and Irish music and culture which makes it meaningful.

Lumping Welsh and Breton music in with this because of pretty remote linguistic connections a few thousand years ago doesn't make much sense. Paradoxicallly its effect seems to be to marginalise Welsh music, which doesn't deserve to be marginalised.