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Popular music in the Welsh language and the affirmation of youth identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2000

Meic Llewellyn
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Abstract

In this paper I attempt first to identify some of the ways in which the growth of Welsh-language popular music and of more assertive and confident ideas of identity among young Welsh speakers were closely linked in the period 1960–85. Secondly, I briefly examine some elements of a period of diversification and crisis that occurred in the 1990s, and finally I attempt to identify three positions from which different musicians and audiences that I have been involved with seem to be currently rehearsing, negotiating and constructing contrasting roles and stances.

Type
Research Article
Information
Popular Music , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , October 2000 , pp. 319 - 339
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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