Arab Spring/Iran Special: Is This a Music-Driven Revolution? (Osborne)

Advisory --- Some of the images in the video are graphic

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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....

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