Do you believe country music is the true Celtic music of the modern world?
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Goodness, no! Is this trolling?
Absolutely not. For one thing, actual Celtic music has never gone anywhere and is still right here.
One could certainly argue that Celtic music was one of the ancestral strains of C&W, but to argue that C&W has somehow supplanted actual Celtic music to become the "true" Celtic music seems bizarre and absurd.
Bluegrass is the hillbilly version of speed Metal
It bothers me that Boston Celtics pronounce the word incorrectly.
By the way, everyone in this thread probably already knows, but just in case: KELL-tick is the adjective used to refer to the culture; CELL-ticks is the Boston basketball team.
When I saw the post, I thought of this scene.
Speed Metal is the headbanger version of bluegrass.
Bostonians pronounce a lot of things incorrectly.
Arguably one of the best female vocal performances ever recorded:
You're too drunk to drive. I'm taking your khakis.
I just think that it's all kind of mixed together. It's not as if all people of a certain ancestry ever like the same type of music. Or the same exact genre.
Some like acoustic. Some like electric. Some like progressive. Some like soft/sensitive.
What people classify as Celtic today doesn't necessarily appeal to the masses the way a more popular genre like CW does. American country music is very popular in the British isles.
Modern country music is rock music sung with an accent. The world doesn’t need another song about pickup trucks, tight jeans and beer.
Country isn't the only genre I thought of.
Southern Rock was the first one that came to mind. I can hear it in the Charlie Daniel band. Even bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd possibly. I just am not as familiar with them. You might laugh at the idea of any heavy electric band like this, but those kind of people have always been around. They must have played some kind of music.
Southern Rock was the first one that came to mind. I can hear it in the Charlie Daniel band. Even bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd possibly. I just am not as familiar with them. You might laugh at the idea of any heavy electric band like this, but those kind of people have always been around. They must have played some kind of music.
It has nothing to do with what people of any particular ancestry like, and it doesn't matter whether a particular music "appeals to the masses" or not. That's not the point. C&W is still not a replacement for Celtic music, and it doesn't become Celtic music purely by getting more hits on Spotify in Ireland. The two musics are different things. That's not a value judgment.
FWIW, I spent nearly a decade playing with Irish musicians who had world-class expertise in traditional Irish music. That's not to say they were purists, not at all, but they would never have confused country music with trad Celtic music. (And they liked country music.)
That's also not to say that people who play these two musics can't play together and collaborate. They can and do. But so do, say, jazz musicians and Indian musicians, or classical musicians and traditional musicians, or what have you, and that doesn't mean the musics are the same or that one has replaced the other.
If what you meant to ask is, Is C&W currently more popular than traditional Celtic music in Ireland or Scotland or Wales, that's a COMPLETELY different question. Who knows, it might be. But that doesn't make it Celtic music. Shoot, hip-hop is probably more popular than Irish trad music among young Irish people, and that doesn't make hip-hop "Celtic" music either.
P.S. Not all of the countries in the British Isles are considered Celtic countries. The seven Celtic nations are Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Galicia (in Spain), Cornwall, and the Isle of Man. England is not one of them (any more).
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