Tag: World music

In the midst of political chaos, music became a vehicle for collective expression, reflecting the despair, anger, and nostalgia of a society falling apart.

Many of the soldier songs of the Second World War were not written by soldiers but were rather propaganda pieces by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Afghan war changed that.

The Second World War was an apocalyptic event and the scars of it have inspired art of all kinds, from literature to film, and of course music.