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  • 3/6/2025
A defiant music scene erupts amidst the 2011 Libyan revolution to become the voice against tyranny and oppression - but | dG1fRVU4LVpLS1JtTms
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00:00Finally this evening a couple of what we might call cultural oddities.
00:17First Libya, where they certainly take their music criticism seriously.
00:22Many of us have seen rock bands break up their instruments as part of the act, but this is
00:25no act.
00:26Libya's leader, Colonel Gaddafi, says that Western musical instruments distort Arab culture
00:31and heritage.
00:32And so they were burned in many of Libya's public squares.
00:56There's a beating heart here of life, art, and culture.
01:14When you live here 20 years and when something like that happens, you're part of that.
01:20The best time.
01:22Music and art is a threat to any oppressive regime.
01:27Music free people.
01:36Change is more powerful than politics.
01:53Stronger than politics.

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