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...world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...other revelers on his wedding night in Kabul. "We sang very quietly, but the police came inside and beat us," he says. Upon his release two months later, Sherki fled to Peshawar, Pakistan, and joined a band that plays at weddings. Those who cannot escape devise other ways to rebel. Shopkeepers sell cassettes on the black market, musicians bury their instruments for retrieval later, and drivers blare their stereos in remote areas. In a tiny flat in Kabul, with the shutters drawn, Naveeda crouches before a kerosene lamp and whispers the lyrics of a popular love song to her family...
...problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called "rebel music" today is not that there's too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture's liberal definition, that there's way too much. Since the dawn of rock 'n' roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee...
...audience of kids who had less than selfless motives to want to get high, laid and not shot? Today Western popular music is aimed at largely comfortable, unrestricted youth in a country at peace. The political battlefields, more and more, are economic--class conflict, globalism, the environment. So making rebel music in some sense means attacking the pillars of your Nike-clad audience's own comfort...
...said it would accept NATO's estimates, but that is hardly the last word on that central question. A NATO official in Brussels called it "a fool's game" to countenance escalating claims from hard-line elements of the government that as many as 100,000 arms are in rebel hands. Experienced soldiers will be looking more closely at the quality of the weapons handed in than the quantity: a shoulder-fired antitank is worth far more than its weight in World War II-era rifles...