Reading Ted Swedenburg's blog this afternoon -- he is an anthropology professor teaching in Arkansas, focused on the Middle East but specifically obsessed with music and the stylistic adoption of the kufiya (or keffiyeh) -- I came across this music video. It's by an Iranian sister-duo called Abjeez ("Abjee" is Farsi slang for sister). They are based in Sweden. "DemoKracy" is a riff on the rhetoric and picture of preemptive war, justified by democratization and propagated on cable news. Best part: the English subtitles rolling along the bottom of the screen, like news alerts.
-Freddy
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good one Fred.
that was pretty fantastic. by the time it started flashing the pictures ans clips i was practically in tears. it's incredibly blatant and forward, while being catchy and moving.
~julia
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