traditional-music

Canadians remember Punjabi rapper two years after killing as ‘bigger than just music’

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Canadians remember Punjabi rapper two years after killing as ‘bigger than just music’

Shub Karman was out for a recent walk in Calgary, when he passed a car full of kids singing along to the music of his favourite Punjabi rapper. “The car was buzzing, the bass was on and there were all sorts of people sitting inside who were jamming to Sidhu Moose Wala,” said Karman, a … Read more

These Indigenous artists are putting queer love in the spotlight

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These Indigenous artists are putting queer love in the spotlight

Unreserved53:492SLGBTQ+ Love Songs When Melody McKiver came across a collection of Indigenous love songs transcribed by anthropologists in the early 1900s, the title of one stood out to her: I Don’t Need You Anymore. “Our ancestors had breakup songs too,” said McKiver, an assistant professor of Indigenous music at the University of Manitoba who is … Read more