The Importance of Irish Music

There's lots of debates about where irish music came from, whether it's influenced by music from other parts of the world. The standard story is that indeed, this is what happeneda there is a sort of indigenous musical tradition which avoids being disrupted or captured in industrialization. Irish music seems to have maintained this sort of relative independence from that. It has a big impact on the way in which people think about how folk music ought to sound.