Aram Sinnreich on Nostr: When I was in Moscow in 2011, I met a bunch of Ukrainian reggae musicians, who told ...
When I was in Moscow in 2011, I met a bunch of Ukrainian reggae musicians, who told me Russians could never play reggae because their way of speaking was so unmusical. Interesting to read this WaPo article about how often music is used as resistance against Russian hegemony.
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