Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The War on Music

Not much need to comment on this story except to say that a similar policy was instigated in Afghanistan at one point:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/mali-militants-declare-war-music

Here is a song by the group Tinariwen mentioned in the story:


And here is more traditional music from Mali accompanied by a kora harp:


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