Painting the world green: Dafydd Iwan and the Welsh protest ballad

James, E. Wyn 2005. Painting the world green: Dafydd Iwan and the Welsh protest ballad. Folk Music Journal 8 (5) , pp. 594-618.

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Abstract

Dafydd Iwan, the current President of the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru, has been a key figure in the significant renewal of national identity Wales has witnessed since the 1960s. While his contribution has been many-faceted, it is arguably as a singer-songwriter that he has been most influential. A master of satirical, political song, his work is a complex plethora of indigenous Welsh and Anglo-American influences, which can only be fully appreciated by being placed in the context of the preservation and modernization of Welsh culture on the one hand, and of the post-war folk revival and the international rights and justice movement of the 1960s on the other. Although not well-known outside Wales, Dafydd Iwan is a figure of international significance, both as an embodiment in a specific cultural context of the singer-songwriter par excellence and as a concrete example of the power and influence of popular song.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Welsh
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature of music
Publisher:	English Folk Dance and Song Society
ISSN:	0531-9684
Related URLs:	http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scol...
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 21:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/5364

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