ABSTRACT
'Blerwytirhwng?' – 'Where are you between?' This title of a song by the Welsh band Super Furry Animals asks a complicated question about an in-between place called Wales. Culturally, Wales is home to two unrelated languages, Welsh and English. Welsh popular music implies all popular music performed, recorded, or produced in Wales, it is inclusive of Welsh- and English-language work. 'Welshness', is a contested construction. Assertions of Welshness have often arisen in the face of an external threat to the Welsh identity, and one of the clearest examples of such a threat would be in the historical motion by the English to eradicate the indigenous language of Wales. 'The people' in Wales occupy similarly hazy territory. The history of the Welsh people is not one of an indigenous, internal class system, but rather one of historical subjugation by their more powerful neighbors to the east, the English.
