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Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)

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Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 87 points 7 months ago

Not even Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union had this arbitrary and stupid of a music ban.

[-] Mistic@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In Soviet Union, the rock genre was for a very long time existing underground due to the inability of artists to be properly published.

Only starting with the 1980s could the artists finally publish their songs officially. And even then Soviet government put a lot of measures to prohibit rock music in the country.

This resulted in the appearance of many beloved bands and artists, like

Kino (tl. Cinema),
DDT,
Aria,
Chaif,
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (tl. Civil Defense),
Mashina Vremeni (tl. Time machine),
Sektor Gaza (tl. Gas Sector)
Korol i Shut (tl. King and Jester)
And many others

The history of Russian rock is actually quite fascinating. It was inspired by bard songs and often touched darker subjects as well as being satirical and judgmental of Soviet government.

Due to that, some artists, like Yegor Letov from Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Yuri Shevchuk from DDT, had troubles with KGB (Soviet FBI).

Nowadays, rock artists are still being persecuted for their views. For example, DDT is de facto prohibited from performing in Russia.

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[-] Mistic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Since we're sharing links now

Although for Grazhdanskaya Oborona, I prefer that song in Louna's version. It's so good, man.

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