Where is the original article about the Galician Music? , Spaniards and Asturian always crushing Galician past and its culture.
I can see a deep ideological tension running through this article. The result is confusing and quite poor. Also it seems to be mainly about Galician music, where Asturian music is like a footnote to it. They do not even mention the Asturian "First Dance" ("danza prima" sorry, I do not know how to translate it better). That is a dance Romans already said old Astures (B.C.) use to dance : all of the dancers forming a circle and taking the next person's pinky finger. While they dance they sing simple melodies with a main singer singing first an the rest of the people repiting his verses like a choir. This is an alive tradition, specially in Saint John's day when people make big bonfires and dance the "danza prima" aroung the fire to celebrate the solstice. That is just an example.
With all respects for Cantabrians, their music shouldn't appear in the group of Galician and Asturian music, because it's note the same thing.
This article was formerly listed as a good article, but was removed from the listing because not comprehensive, poor referencing
This article suggests that the traditional music of Galicia is “Celtic”, implying affinity with the traditional musics of Scotland and Ireland. Readers should be aware that most scholars are likely to consider this poppycock. Galicia is not in any real sense “Celtic”, and its traditional music (as opposed to modern folk-pop music) is much more fundamentally related to that of other parts of northern Iberia than to that of Ireland, Scotland and Brittany.
Sep 3, 2004 - Dear Tuf-Kat... I don't really think you've made this any clearer; I think you've just restated your "Celtic origins" theory, which in my view is unfounded, a sort of modern myth closely associated with Galician nationalism (with which I have no problem per se). I would suggest the following wording for the first paragraph of this article...