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Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over others. Today, the Internet has given way to a new mode of delivery for cultural colonization.   dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music outside or in direct opposition of that hegemony.

The westernized term “Desert Blues” is a little reductive.

Artists from Mali, Niger, Algeria and more have created a genre of music that is inseparable from the struggle and resistance of the Tuareg people, and it’s called Tishoumaren.

Comment “it’s not desert blues” for the playlist.

#musiccurator #history #culture #musicdiscovery #learnsomething by @decolonizeyourears

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Thank you so much 600k views on this, 400k on my video covering Singeli, and for almost 30k followers on Decolonize Your Ears 🫶

It’s my goal to do this for a living.

anyway:

Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over others. Today, the Internet has given way to a new mode of delivery for cultural colonization.

dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music outside or in direct opposition of that hegemony.

We dove into the experimental electronic music scene in Mexico a few videos back, and we’re coming back to cover some new and old artists alike.

Featuring @deliabeat once again
@methmathxoxo for the first time
and the great @sietecatorce

#musiccuration #electronicmusıc #cdmx #clubmusic #electronicmusic by @decolonizeyourears

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Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over others. Today, the Internet has given way to a new mode of delivery for cultural colonization.

dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music outside or in direct opposition of that hegemony.

Singeli is many, many things.

It’s been called ‘art borne from lack’ by BBC News Africa, the ‘hyperpop’ of Tanzania, and the future of afrofuturism…

Karen Chalamilla wrote that “Singeli has not always been legible or accepted in mainstream Tanzanian media, so it is tempting to think of Singeli as a counterculture…[but] Singeli is not necessarily resisting hegemony; it is instead a response of working-class youth to their living conditions. The way the genre sets itself apart is not by resistance, but by a strategy of creation.”

But one things for sure: it’s fast, it’s frenetic, and it’s very, very fun.

Today, we’re covering Singeli.

Comment “I LOVE SINGELI” for the playlist.

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artists:

@dj_travella_mr_mixondo
@jaymitta_kazi_kwanza
@producer_sisso @producer_maiko by @decolonizeyourears

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Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over others. In our modern day, the internet is another vehicle for cultural colonization.

dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music outside or in direct opposition of that hegemony.

I’m doing a sub-series on Mexico, where I’m from.

Today, we’re talking about Cumbia Rebajada. If you’re into DJ Screw or Doom Metal, you’ll get the vibe pretty much instantly.

Records:

Sonido Dueñez - Rebajada Tapes 1-6
Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de los Sonideros
Turbo Sonidero - Lowrider Kumbias (Rebajada Por Sonido Dueñez)

#musiccuration #monterrey #cumbia #cumbiarebajada
#chicano by @decolonizeyourears

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Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over others. Today, the Internet has given way to a new mode of delivery for cultural colonization.

dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music outside or in direct opposition of that hegemony.

I’m doing a sub-series on Mexico, where I’m from.

Let’s dive into the experimental electronic music scene in Mexico, including club music, ambient/drone, and modern reinterpretations on cumbia alike.

ft. @deliabeat
@n_a_a_f_i
@cncpcn

#musiccurator #electronicmusıc #cdmx #clubmusic by @decolonizeyourears

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Cultural colonization is the systematic imposition of a group’s cultural framework or identity (typically 🇺🇸/🇪🇺) over all others. dcye.mp4 is a series where we present music shoved aside as a result of those impositions to learn more about the world we live in.

I’m doing a sub-series on Mexico, where I’m from, and the folk music from there that’s criminally underrated.

Today, we’ll look at Veracruz and the mystical Son Jarocho.

ft. @silvanaestradab
@losvegasonjarocho_
#gracianasilva

#musiccurator #dcye #newmusic by @decolonizeyourears

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A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world you live in.

Today we’re talking jazz, and while these records aren’t exactly obscure, knowing the context around them matters. Each one represents a significant rupture against the internal cultural colonization of jazz, the white critical gatekeeping that repeatedly tried to define what the music “really” was.

AI has hit jazz streaming income harder than almost any other genre.

This playlist is older, but I’ll be highlighting younger jazz artists in future videos and actively trying to push the algorithm back toward real musicians.

Three more next time.

DCYE_5.mp4 by @decolonizeyourears

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COMMENT ‘Brasil’ for the playlist 🎧🇧🇷❕

A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.

Brasil in the 90s was on fire, too, and here are three records that prove it.

DCYE_4.mp4 by @decolonizeyourears

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A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.

Just got back from Rio, so today we’re going deep into the Pindorama 🇧🇷

Three records that rejected colonial notions of identity in very different ways.

Three more next time.

DCYE_3.mp4

#musicdiscovery #musiccuration #history #culture by @decolonizeyourears

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A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.

Today, we’re checking out four (4) records by Black artists who were overlooked in their day, but their influence cannot be overstated:

Labi, Meshell and Beverly are all queer and pioneered their respective genres, it’s time they got their flowers and more.

Three more next time (actually).

DCYE_2.mp4

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#musiccuration #history #culture #learnsomething blackhistorymonth by @decolonizeyourears

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A series about decentralizing the 🇺🇸 hegemony and getting into music that says something about the world we live in.

We’ll take a look at BRASS by Moor Mother & billy woods, Amaro Freitas’ Y’Y, and Ana Tijoux’s Vida. 3 Records dealing with history, colonialism, memory, and resistance, each grounded in place and time.

Three more next time.

DCYE_1.mp4

#musiccuration #history #culture #learnsomething by @decolonizeyourears

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