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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Celtic Rock - A History
Description: Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 40s and early 50s when blues, rhythm and blues, western, country, folk, and hillbilly traditions began to mix and match, eventually coalescing into what became known as “rock’n’roll”.If you’re an alt-rock fan, you’ve heard the story of how all this began with the garage bands of the late 60s and the punk rock explosion of the mid-70s.The birth of modern electronic music?... It has a rich and complicated origin story that stretches back to the...