Celtic music is a term utilized by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of
musical genres that evolved out of the
folk musical traditions of the
Celtic peoples of
Northern Europe. As such there is no real body of
music which can be accurately be described as Celtic, but the term has stuck and may refer to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded
popular music. The latter sometimes has barely even a superficial resemblance to folk music of any of the Celtic cultures, but on the other hand it sometimes represents sincere work towards adapting Celtic traditions for modern, global culture.
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