“Although World Music Day on 21 June is a day to celebrate music, we should also remember the scores of musicians around the globe who are persecuted and imprisoned for using their craft as a form of protest against government oppression.”
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PJ Harvey and ICORN rapper Ramy Essam’s song “The Camp” details the conditions faced by displaced Syrian children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the Beyond Association, a NGO which imrpoves the conditions of refugees in Lebanon, like those in Bekaa Valley.
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Throughout his decades-long musical career, Mikhail Borzykin has spoken out against oppressive forces in Russia and used his rock music as resistance.
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“This is not the cultural war; rather, culture is what connects us.” -Abazar Hamid
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Three songs from Sudanese musician Abazar Hamid, ICORN artist-in-residence of the Harstad City of Refuge in Norway.
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Music video from Khaled Harara, a Palestinian rapper and ICORN musician-in-residence of the Gothenburg City of Refuge in Sweden from 2013 to 2015.
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