Musical subcultures articulated resistance to war on terror policies
Evidence
In his book Rebel Music, scholar Hisham Aidi explores the musical subcultures created by young Muslims around the world in the war on terror era. He shows how hip hop and other musical genres including rock and reggae have articulated resistance to war on terror policies. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 756
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SEED: Potential article angle: hip hop and reggae as distributed, hard-to-censor channels of political resistance when corporate media and political representation fail.
- SHARE: Good for a friend into music history or Islam in the West who hasn’t heard of Aidi’s Rebel Music.
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