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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 (3 children)

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

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Isis and taliban do tho. Chechnya is primarily muslim. But yea, another sign russia has become a dystopian nightmare

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't the IS make music propaganda videos?

[–] monomon@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think IS are not too much into music, on the whole.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

That's so weird. So musical instruments are banned, but there is a loophole for a capella...

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

ISIS jihad nasheed remixes were a fun phenomenon for a while.

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not music they're nasheeds (nasheeds r banger asf)

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A nasheed (Arabic: نَشِيد, romanized: nashīd, lit. 'chant', plural Arabic: أَنَاشِيد, romanized: anāshīd) is a work of vocal music, partially coincident with hymns, that is either sung a cappella or with instruments, according to a particular style or tradition within Sunni Islam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasheed

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A nasheed ... is a work of vocal music

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you daft?

It's not music they're nasheeds (nasheeds r banger asf)

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

?? Yeah nasheeds are banger asf I agree??

[–] Mistic@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mistic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you seriously over-estimate the level of tolerance of Nazi Germany. The Nazis persecuted Degenerate Music just like they persecuted Degenerate Art.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that Nazi Germany didn't ban music, they absolutely did ban entire genres of music as well as many composers. But they didn't ban music based on its basic qualities like tempo.

[–] Tropic420@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They banned Solos and drum breaks

[–] Willer@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They broke the amen 😞