Published
Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 10:45
- The ban means that most forms of dance music would be outlawed by the Russian republic.
Chechnya has imposed limits on music tempos, the Moscow Times reports.
"From now on all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 BPM," Chechnya's culture ministry said in a statement. The ban means that most forms of dance music would be effectively outlawed by the Russian republic.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov instructed culture minister Musa Dadayev to make Chechen music "conform to the Chechen mentality," the statement continued. "Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," said Dadayev. Local artists have been ordered to "rewrite" their music by June 1st to accommodate the changes.
Situated in the North Caucasus, Chechnya is a deeply conservative Muslim-majority region. It's made headlines in recent years for its brutal persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community, which has included forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing of civilians based on their perceived sexual orientation.
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