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dc.contributor.authorMcCoy, Narelle
dc.contributor.editorWeston, D
dc.contributor.editorBennett, A
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-01T23:55:02Z
dc.date.available2018-11-01T23:55:02Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-09-30T05:49:04Z
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-84465-646-2
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315729688
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59462
dc.description.abstractThe Irish diaspora provides an enormous consumer base for the selling of "Irishness" and nostalgia. However, the appropriation of the word "Celtic" as a marketing tool has expanded this target audience significantly, which has coincided with a renewed interest in "Celtic" mysticism and spirituality. The "New Age" movement is at the forefront of the Celtic renaissance. The pleth­ora of Celtic websites advertising such wide-ranging topics as Druidism, Bardic paths, Celtic Wiccan ritual and Celtic reconstructionism bear testa­ment to a renewed interest in Paganism and nature-based spirituality. The path to Celtic Pagan spirituality appears to centre on several core beliefs, some of which include cultivation of a creative spirit, reverence for the earth and a belief in early Celtic cosmology. The dissemination of Celtic mysti­cism via New Age websites invites anyone who shares these core beliefs to identify as Celtic, and more particularly as Celtic Pagans. This chapter will examine the various types of Celtic musics promoted on a variety of Celtic Pagan websites under the banner of Celtic popular music, and explore the way in which "Celtic" has become the vehicle for expressions of Paganism in late modern consumer societies.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAcumen
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317546665/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315729688-19
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitlePop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music
dc.relation.ispartofchapter12
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom176
dc.relation.ispartofpageto188
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMusicology and ethnomusicology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode360306
dc.titleThe rise of the Celtic cyber-diaspora: the influence of the "New Age" on internet Pagan communities and the dissemination of "Celtic" music
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
dc.description.versionSubmitted Manuscript (SM)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Queensland Conservatorium
gro.rights.copyright© 2013 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music on 31 May 2013, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315729688
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorMcCoy, Narelle P.


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