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malaise

(269,054 posts)
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 08:35 PM Apr 2018

Too Cool! India's Reggae Resistance: Defending Dissent Under Modi

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2017/05/india-reggae-resistance-defending-dissent-modi-170518115300019.html
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Indian musician Taru Dalmia is convinced his reggae sounds can play a role in political activism, and decides it's time to act when a wave of protests erupts at universities across India.

To take his music into the hearts of rallies and communities, he raises money to build a giant sound system and hits the road.

Taru hopes his hand-built stack of speakers can support protesters alleging that free speech is being suppressed under Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.

But he's uncertain how local artists and activists will react. Will they embrace his Jamaica-inspired music, or see him as a naive outsider out of touch with the country's politics?
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Too Cool! India's Reggae Resistance: Defending Dissent Under Modi (Original Post) malaise Apr 2018 OP
Music has long been a vehicle for social change--Woodie Guthrie's anti-facist machine: panader0 Apr 2018 #1
+1,000 malaise Apr 2018 #4
Rebel Rockers! johnp3907 Apr 2018 #2
This is certainly strange, Malaise. Then again, it sort of makes sense ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #3

panader0

(25,816 posts)
1. Music has long been a vehicle for social change--Woodie Guthrie's anti-facist machine:
Sat Apr 7, 2018, 08:53 PM
Apr 2018

Dylan, Marley and so many more--I hope Dalmia makes people think.

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