Saturday
Nov122011
Arab Spring/Iran Special: Is This a Music-Driven Revolution? (Osborne)
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 8:04 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
Advisory --- Some of the images in the video are graphic
Throughout the last 11 months of the uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East --- and, before that, the protests in Iran --- we have noted the intersections between activism and music. We learned about rapper El General in Tunisia, and there were the images of the Egyptian Revolution, set to a song by Kanye West.
Now Matt Osborne, writing for Crooks and Liars, goes farther into the dynamics of music and protest....
tagged Crooks and Liars, Matt Osborne