A History of Welsh Music
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A History of Welsh Music

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A History of Welsh Music

About this book

From early medieval bards to the bands of the 'Cool Cymru' era, this book looks at Welsh musical practices and traditions, the forces that have influenced and directed them, and the ways in which the idea of Wales as a 'musical nation' has been formed and embedded in popular consciousness in Wales and beyond. Beginning with early medieval descriptions of musical life in Wales, the book provides both an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Topics include the eisteddfod, the church and the chapel, the influence of the Welsh language and Welsh cultural traditions, the scholarship of the Celtic Revival and the folk song movement, the impacts of industrialization and digitization, and exposure to broader trends in popular culture, including commercial popular music and sport.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781316511060
eBook ISBN
9781009041874
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Maps
  8. List of Music Examples
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Glossary
  13. Maps
  14. Chapter 1 Music in Welsh History
  15. Chapter 2 Words for Music: Describing Musical Practices in Medieval Welsh Literature
  16. Chapter 3 Music in Worship before 1650
  17. Chapter 4 Secular Music before 1650
  18. Chapter 5 The Eisteddfod Tradition
  19. Chapter 6 Women and Welsh Folk Song
  20. Chapter 7 Instrumental Traditions after 1650
  21. Chapter 8 The Celtic Revival
  22. Chapter 9 Musical Communications in the Long Nineteenth Century
  23. Chapter 10 Nonconformists and Their Music
  24. Chapter 11 Professionalisation in the Twentieth Century
  25. Chapter 12 Composing Cymru: Art Music since 1940
  26. Chapter 13 Traditions and Interventions: Popular Music 1840–1940
  27. Chapter 14 New Traditions: Welsh Popular Music into the Twenty-First Century
  28. Chapter 15 Singing Welshness: Sport, Music and the Crowd
  29. Chapter 16 Postscript: Contemporary Wales, Devolution and Digitisation
  30. Appendix 1 Selective, Chronological List of Traditional Music Published up to 1920
  31. Appendix 2 Selective, Chronological List of Hymn Collections Published in Wales or for Use by Welsh Congregations from 1621 to 1900
  32. Appendix 3 Selective List of Major Published and Manuscript Sources Available in Open-Access Digitised Form
  33. Bibliography
  34. Index