minstrel: Re: minstrel digest, Vol 1 #156 - 11 msgs

[Heather Rose Jones]

At 9:15 PM -0600 1/8/03, Dustin wrote:
>on 1/6/03 6:15 PM, nickolas kaugon at ollaimh at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>  you have no right to have any opinion about celtic
>>  music in period.
>
>
>I know that this list is suposed to be for music that is "period" for the
>SCA, but there has been a bit of talk about celtic music as of late, so I
>figured this will not be unrelated:
>
>When did Traditional music from Northwestern Europe (England, Scottland,
>Ireland, ect.) first started to be called "Celtic" Music?
>
>I do not disagree with using that term, I was just curious.

The use of the term "Celtic music" is much more a music-industry 
marketing term than a meaningful term of music scholarship (except 
insofar as the existence of the marketing category has produced 
effects on the musical community).  To the best of my knowledge, the 
concept of "Celtic music" as a category dates to the second half of 
the 20th century. Talking about "Celtic music" in the SCA's period, 
as if it were a unified stylistic category, is badly misleading. 
(Heck -- talking about "Celtic" _anything_ in the SCA's period is 
usually a warning sign to look at what's being said very carefully. 
The various and several Celtic-speaking cultures of the medieval 
period were _not_ part of a single connected culture, clearly 
distinguishable from "non-Celtic" cultures.)

Tangwystyl
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