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Thread #79469   Message #1442267
Posted By: The Shambles
24-Mar-05 - 01:53 AM
Thread Name: Gospel music is Gaelic? UK TV 21 Mar
Subject: RE: Gospel music is Gaelic? UK TV 21 Mar
Thanks to those now producing the obvious references to the fact that this style of singing is nothing uniquely to do with the Scottish Gaelic culture of the Isle of Lewis; this was merely a bit of TV bollocks to provoke controversy.

I take that you have now seen all of the programme?

Would you contend that black gospel music is not uniquely rooted in the non-African religion that it still worships?

Surely if you are not allowing Willie Ruff to state that the roots of this particular style uniquely comes from this Gaelic culture - you cannot state that it clearly does not.

What I heard and saw on the film - tends to convince me that - more than likely it does.