Music – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:06:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 Freddy ‘Mustapha’ Mercury http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/ http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:06:35 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=178 Check out Queen’s brilliant, hysterical song  ‘Mustapha’. I could not be sure, but Freddie Mercury is singing in Arabic, Persian and English, mashing names of prophets with ‘As-salam-alalikum’. The song is part of the Queen’s 1978 album Jazz, and they performed it live regularly. In live performances, Mercury would often sing the opening vocals of […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/freddy-mustapha-mercury/feed/ 0 ‘This Isn’t Us’ http://globalistan.org/this-isnt-us/ http://globalistan.org/this-isnt-us/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:47:58 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=46 Check out this video produced by a number of Pakistani pop-musicians that is all the rave in Pakistan. ‘Yeh Hum nahin’ which means ‘This is not us’ in Urdu is a song aimed at condemning terrorism. What fascinates me about this is the attempt at redefinition of identity that goes in procliaming ‘this is not […]

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