Definition: Music from or associated with the countries where Celtic languages are still spoken.
Discuss.
- Music intended to evoke images of the countries where Celtic languages are still spoken.
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If you don’t get it in, to your big thick head, you won’t get your confirmation
Ah, the Celtic Twilight.
Defining “Celtic Language” might help. Is Finnish a Celtic Language? Is Greek a Celtic Language? They are described as such in some academic areas.
What if the language isn’t spoken there anymore, does that make it no longer Celtic music?
No, Finnish isn’t a Celtic language, it’s not even Indo-European. Greek is not a Celtic language either, but is Indo-European. Academics don’t describe either of these as Celtic languages. The surviving(ish) Celtic languages are Welsh, Breton, Cornish (dead but still twitches a bit); Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx (just going into rigor mortis).
Yes, but the word “celtic” comes from the Greek “keltoi”, so even your terminology is suspect. 
How about:
3). A weak-assed attempt to cash in on the latest elevator-music fad.
djm
What about Galicia in Spain?
We could include Cornwall and the Isle of Man since they have some survival of the languages. how about “where Celtic languages are spoken or were fairly recently spoken.”
Otherwise we would have to include Austria, Switzerland, parts of Turkey, etc., since they had Celtic populations, and Celtic languages were spoken there.
Galician music is now often counted as Celtic music, but the Galicians don’t speak a Celtic language, though as far as I know the Gal- prefix is associated with Celts, and the population might have a Celtic element. Galicia is interesting, because their wish to be part of the modern Celtic world has resulted in many musical connections between Galicia and the Celtic countries. I remember seeing that one of the leading Galician harpists ( was taught by a Welsh harpist.
We’ll get to 3) later. I agree that the Celts might not have designated themselves as Celts, but those two groups of three languages apiece are closely related. There was a recent book The Atlantic Celts by Simon James which questioned the cohesiveness of the various peoples and phenomena now labelled as Celtic.
What about the Gaelic-speaking communities in Canada, or the Welsh speaking community in Y Wladfa (Patagonia) then?
It’s a broad category so a narrow definition probably won’t work. It has multiple defintions to multiple people.
cop out.
Cop in.
music where celtic tigers appear in..
Why do you have the pic of the Welsh sign Cranberry?
So is Michael Jackson Celtic music? Or Stravinsky?
Perhaps it’s all just Greek 
… so believes the father on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.
