by Alessandro Pascale
If you need to know in depth the Islamic world "unconventional", the one that raps sacred texts such as hymns of political protest, or metal riff that sets off to find himself on fire in a cellar to get around censorship or who uses blogs to spread music and punk rock became one of the most popular sites in the Middle East, if you care to know at least a part of how life really takes place in countries such as Morocco, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon , then Rock the casbah! is the book for you.
The beauty of Mark LeVine is not just to let us know a totally unknown world of music, but also be able to bring out the many shades of the Islamic world (and not just Lebanon and Israel docent), much more varied and complex than is usually believed the majority of ordinary people who speak from hearsay (perhaps by the League ...) or to give air to the mouth.
For example, the issue of the relationship between metal and Islam: the heavy metal has always had a bad reputation in the West in some quarters, accused of Satanism, immorality, incitement to violence, occultism and so forth. Apparently it would seem irreconcilable with the Islamic religion, so much so that there are extremists (particularly serious is the situation of Iran) who are trying to ostracized, stifle and punish with all their force, for its origin in western import. Yet there are also many men who see no incompatibility between the two camps, and indeed in some cases they even see the positive benefits.
clear that the real reason of suffocation of the underground musical movement is actually the source policy: most of the governments of Meda democracies are in fact only a façade, whose corrupt political system is supported and legitimized by neo-colonialist and imperialist policies of the U.S., not for nothing that they often become the object of hatred and invective, identified as the real major problem that prevents the Arab people have hope for political change in the near future.
In this context the music illiberal "alternative" are in many cases the only possible form of opposition, not in the interests of confrontation with the regime (which would be suicidal), but the creation of subcultures characterized by an alteration in public only musical-cultural, which is exposed only in private at the level of political criticism. Borgna
in the past said that a revolt imaginary (ie cultural) opens the door to genuine political revolt, and in any case be seen as a positive factor in because it allows the release by the type social-cultural and the formation of a critical group can turn into something more dangerous to the institutions. That 's what happened in '68 at the bottom, with the start of a phase in which Italy has lasted a decade. What
LeVine hopes often during the work it is to weld these countercultural movements with the nuclei most progressive politicians. Without each other alone do not have other possibilities than those of vivacchiare a thousand dangers, but their marriage could one day lead to the collapse of the autocratic and illiberal governments which are responsible for keeping us in the West especially. The story will let us know how it will end.
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