Casgliad 'Wales: Music Nation with Huw Stephens'

Mae cerddoriaeth wedi dod i chwarae rôl sylweddol yn hunaniaeth Cymru. Mae wedi ac yn parhau i fod yn ganolog i'r ffordd y mae llawer o Gymry yn meddwl amdanynt eu hunain ar y cyd fel cenedl, a'r modd y mae'r Cymry yn cael eu gweld y tu allan i Gymru.

Cystadleuaeth ddiwylliannol sy’n unigryw i’r Cymry yw’r eisteddfod. Felly, sut dechreuodd y cyfan?

Sut daeth ‘Hen Wlad fy Nhadau’ yn anthem genedlaethol Cymru?

Hanes cymhleth yr emyn Cymreig enwog hwn.

O werin i roc, mae cerddoriaeth wedi bod wrth wraidd diwylliant a chymuned Cymru erioed. Yn y Sgwrs Agored hon, mae'r DJ a’r cyflwynydd, Huw Stephens, yn trafod hanes a diwylliant cerddorol Cymru ag academyddion Y Brifysgol Agored.

Mae Jen Wilson yn archwilio'r cysylltiadau hanesyddol rhwng cerddoriaeth Affricanaidd-Americanaidd y 1850au a thwf jazz yn niwylliant poblogaidd Cymru.

Trosolwg o'r amgylchiadau yng Nghymru a arweiniodd at draddodiad cerddorol unigryw a byd-enwog.

Beth achosodd i aelod o'r dosbarth llywodraethol yn y 19eg ganrif fynd ati i ddiogelu cerddoriaeth werin Gymraeg?

Mae Dydd Gŵyl Dewi bob amser yn achlysur pan mae syniadau am gerddoroldeb Cymreig yn cael eu hailadrodd. Mae Dr Martin V Clarke yn siarad am y dorf chwaraeon a’r rôl gefnogol y mae’n ei chwarae wrth leoli Cymru fel ‘gwlad y gân’.

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