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Sain Cymru: the role of the Welsh phonographic industry in the development of a Welsh language pop/rock/folk scene*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Extract

One would expect to find a variety of views about a phenomenon which a minority of the 2.3 million inhabitants of Wales (around 500,000 people) value highly, but which a majority literally cannot understand. The role that the Welsh language should play is a controversial subject both within and outside those circles where it is spoken. Wales is one of the countries where the Celtic language has survived as a living language (the other Celtic areas are: Ireland and Scotland, where some Gaelic is spoken; Cornwall in southern England, where the language is dead; Britanny, in northern France, where Celtic just about lingers on). In the immediate post-World War II period, Welsh, it was predicted by many, would die out, with the language only surviving for a few decades in remote areas of North Wales. However, provisions in the 1944 Education Act were responsible for the beginnings of a movement in the reverse direction, and by the sixties, there was a revival of the language, mainly thanks to the activities of an ethnically orientated nationalist movement organised partly through a political party, Plaid Cymru, and partly through the Welsh Language Society, Cymdeithas Yr Iaith Gymraeg (see Williams 1977; Williams 1982, pp. 145–202; the chapter on Wales in Stephens 1976).

Type
Part 2. The Contemporary Music Industry: Organisation and Ideology
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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References

References

Books and articles

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Recordings

Original recording dates are given where possible.

Ail, Symudiad. 1980. Whisgi a Soda, Sain SAIN 76Google Scholar
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Clustiau, Cŵn. 1980. ‘Byw yn y Radio’, Sain SAIN 79SGoogle Scholar
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Jones, Huw. 1973. ‘I Wish I Were an Englishman’, Sain SAIN 33E. Morriston Orpheus Choir. Land of my Fathers, EMI SRS 5062Google Scholar
Plethyn. 1980. ‘Golau Tan Gwmwl’, Sain SAIN 1188M Poems and Pints, EMIC EMC 3138Google Scholar
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Piws, Y Tebot. 1971. ‘Mae Rhgwun wedi Dwyn fy Nhrwyn’, from Gwalt yn y Gwynt, Sain SAIN 19EGoogle Scholar