NEWS, REVIEWS AND ACTIVISM

Indigenous Rappers And More Mexican Musicians Featured On Marvel’s Wakanda Forever Soundtrack

Oaxaca native, Mare Advertencia Lirika, who's been rapping for nearly two decades, along with fellow musician and activist Vivir Quintana, wrote the song 'Árboles bajo del mar' (Trees beneath the ...
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Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Known For His Anti-Government Protest Songs Has Been Arrested

The dissident rapper, commonly known by his first name Toomaj, was arrested by Iranian authorities on the 30th of October, just over a week ago. This is not the first ...
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Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid Of This Song?

The crowdsourced protest anthem “Baraye” has become a thorn in the side of the theocratic government in Tehran. This article was written by Nahid Siamdoust and originally published by Foreign ...
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New Book Documents Pioneering Women Recording Artists In Early 20th Century India

As it so often happens, the stories of underrepresented people get lost or forcefully erased through time by those who wish to control the historical narrative. In early twentieth century ...
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Malian singer Oumou Sangaré set for Apollo Theater debut on 29 October

This article was written by Gabriel Myers Hansen and originally published by Music In Africa under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialCC BY-NC licence. Malian Wassoulou musician Oumou Sangaré will perform for the ...
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Iranian Protest Song Gains Thousands Of Submissions For New Grammy Award

As powerful and popular many protest songs have been throughout history they have not had their own category at one of the world's largest music awards ceremony - until now ...
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Retromania and resistance: Record label MaJazz Project reissues new dawn for unsung Palestinian pioneers

This article was written by Benjamin Ashraf and originally published by The New Arab. In what became a cult classic of musicology, Simon Reynolds’s Retromania describes a Western culture intent ...
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Iran Arrests Singer Whose Song Became Anthem Of Ongoing Protests

Shervin Hajipour is among the dozens of artists, activists, and journalists who have been arrested since anti-government protests erupted in Iran. This article was written by Golnaz Esfandiari and Fereshteh ...
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Nina Ogot on forging her identity and the role of music in society

This article was written by Peter Choge and originally published by Music In Africa. The article is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC licence. Poised is the word ...
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PROTEST MUSIC INTERVIEWS

Interview: Tibetan Artist Yungchen Lhamo Sings for a Better World

This interview by Mike Fiorito was originally published on the Atwood webpage and republished here with the author's permission. There are some singers who invent a genre to suit their ...
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Native Eyez | Intikana, Social Justice Activist, By Mike Fiorito

This article is written by Mike Fiorito and originally published on the Star Revue webpage. Check out more of Mike's writings via his webpage. I met the rapper Intikana through ...
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A Protest Music Interview: The Sprawl

Kurt Vonnegut once said: "If I ever severed myself from Indianapolis, I would be out of business. What people like about me is Indianapolis." Something about the city of Indianapolis ...
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