The freedom that many Iranians would like to have is to listen the music they love, too. The regime in fact, even if the Koran doesn't say anything against music, prohibits any kind of music that promotes a "decadent Western culture", because the religious elite and the state monitor even the disco industry. Ahmadinejad in 2005, overturning the policy of more liberal predecessors, banned on national radio and tv all "western music" that really means all the iranian music that the regime doesn't like.
In May 2009 a heavy metal concert in Shiraz was interrupted by the Islamic militias who arrested 100 people on charges of drinking alcohol and worship the devil. Even the bands that used the texts of classical Persian poets, such as Hafez and Rumi, with rock music were often banned. The consequence is that Iran has a vital underground music scene, in the true sense of the word since many musicians are forced to play in hidden cellars to avoid being arrested.
Some have left Iran, as the only way to be able to play freely and make their music known, like The Plastic Wave, and the most famous Kiosk both emigrated to the United States. In some cases it is very difficult to remain in Iran, as in the case of the Take It Easy Hospital, now in London, which have a female singer, and in Iran a woman cannot sing in front of an audience, unless it is completely feminine.
The site Barax.com has a list of Iranian singers and bands from traditional music to rap, and of course the first page is all for the songs dedicated to the ongoing demonstrations against the regime, including contributions from U2, Joan Baez , Bon Jovi and the German band Samavayo in support of the "green revolution". The song Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name of Iranian American indie band Hypernova has become one of the anthems of the protest. Like Biya of Abjeez & Crew Congo Man, a reggae-pop song by Iranian musicians living in Sweden, which invites the soldiers to join the crowd in protest. The site Zirzamin collects the Iranian alternative music, which includes many bands who play what the Iranian regime considers pure satanic music, heavy and black metal. But the rebellion involves all musical genres, from rock sung in English to rap sung in Iranian like Shahin Najaf, whose song Neda circulates on Youtube accompanied by images of the bloody repression of the regime.
Iranian music is alive and continues to fight, even if They have the police, truncheons, guns and prisons.
Francesco Defferrari
Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name degli Hypernova
Neda di Shahin Najafi
Biyaa di Abjeez & Congo Man Crew
Tehran girl of german musicians Samavayo
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No one person's brain's neurotransmission should ever determine the fate of milions of people, in any circumstance. Please acknowledge the over 10 males that were killed in Iran, as every life is as important as the next.