The Guardian • political music
Issue #2183
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Cuba is a famously musical country. Cuban women have long protested against US imperialism through their music, intertwining anti-colonial sentiment, national sovereignty and feminist critique....
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Issue #2174
Marcelo Puente, Otra día amanece: The Book of Songs
Lovers of Nueva Cançion, the revolutionary Latin American song movement born in the 1960’s, will embrace this book, a collection of stories and lyrics that...
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Issue #2191
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have had a fierce tradition of protest music in Australia, blending personal, community, and political struggle fighting for land,...
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Issue #2185
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Iranian women’s protest music is complex and layered. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the introduction of the Islamic Republic, women have been restricted...
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Issue #2163
Tom Lehrer, a belated ‘vale’
Tom Lehrer died at the age of 97, on 26 July, which is both a good innings and a while ago for an obituary, but...
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Issue #2210
120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s contribution to Soviet culture
This year marks the 120th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s birth on 25 September 1906 in St Petersburg (later Leningrad). He made an enormous contribution to...
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