Celtic punk

Celtic punk is punk rock mixed with traditional Celtic music.

Celtic punk
Stylistic origins
Cultural origins1980s London, England: Irish folk and punk rock scenes
Typical instruments
Regional scenes
Other topics

Celtic punk bands often play traditional Irish, Welsh or Scottish folk and political songs, as well as original compositions.[3] Common themes in Celtic punk music include politics, Celtic culture and identity, heritage, religion, drinking and working class pride.

The genre was popularized in the 1980s by The Pogues.

The term Celtic punk is usually used to describe bands who base their music in Irish or Scottish traditional music. It is considered part of the broader folk punk genre, but that term tends to be used for bands that use English, American and other forms of folk music as inspiration.

The typical Celtic punk band includes a rock instrumentation as well as traditional instruments such as bagpipes, fiddle, tin whistle, accordion, mandolin, and banjo. Like Celtic rock, Celtic punk is a form of Celtic fusion.[4]

History

Celtic punk's origin is in the 1960s and 1970s folk rock musicians who played British folk rock and Celtic rock in the UK, as well as in more traditional Celtic folk bands such as the Dubliners and the Clancy Brothers. The Scottish band the Skids were possibly the first UK punk band to add a strong folk music element, as they did on their 1981 album Joy. Around the same time in London, Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy began experimenting with a sound that became the Pogues.[3] Their early sets included a mixture of traditional folk songs and original songs written in a traditional style but performed in a punk style.[5] Other early Celtic punk bands included Nyah Fearties, Australia's Roaring Jack and Norway's Greenland Whalefishers.

North American Celtic punk bands have been influenced by American forms of music, some have contained members with no Celtic ancestry, and commonly sang in English.[6] Massachusetts has a particularly large population of Irish Americans and has produced popular bands like the Dropkick Murphys.

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See also

References
  1. Ćunković, Milan. "Alfapop". Nadlanu (. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. Tabak, Nate; Mullins, Lisa. "Belgrade's The Orthodox Celts Put Twist on Irish Standards". PRI. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. P. Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock (London: Rough Guides, 2003), p. 798.
  4. B. Sweers, Electric Folk: Changing Face of English Traditional Music (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 197-8.
  5. Scanlon, A. The Lost Decade. Omnibus Press, 1988
  6. J. Herman, ‘British Folk-Rock; Celtic Rock’, The Journal of American Folklore, 107, (425), (1994) pp. 54-8.
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