Cool Cymru

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Cool Cymru (Welsh: Cŵl Cymru) was a Welsh cultural movement in the 1990s and 2000s. The movement saw a rise in the popularity of Welsh music, with bands such as Catatonia, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and Super Furry Animals, many of which were adjacent to the Britpop and post-Britpop movements. It also saw developments in Welsh politics, sport, visual art and TV and film. Cool Cymru is often seen as more of a wide-ranging movement than its British equivalent, lasting well into the twenty-first century. Some commentators have linked the movement to a new cultural confidence in the nation and a more positive view of Wales outside the country while others have criticised it as homogenous and jingoistic.

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