I used to think that modal composition was primarily found in "celtic" music. However since I started exploring other traditional genres of music, I'm finding modes to be very common in everything except Western European Art music.. American country music spends alot of time in the "Major" pentatonic and dorian modes.
Doesn't American country music have Irish and Scottish roots via immigration to the Appalachian region?
Last week or so I saw a country line-dance troupe outside of an Asda supermarket in Aberdeen. I suppose it's better than another McDonald's. ;-)
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