History of music in Belarus
Belarus is an Eastern European country with a rich culture of folk and religious music. The country’s music traditions can be dated ba...
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Belarus
is an Eastern European country with a rich culture of folk and religious music.
The country’s music traditions can be dated back from the times of the Grand
Duchy of Lithunia. In the early section of the 20th century, the
Soviet control of the country somewhat limited musical making because
nationally oriented music was considered to be rebellious and dangerous to the
Soviet power. The country’s musical cultures spread with its folk to the
countries such as Russua, Canada, United States, Kazakhstan, Latvia and the
Ukraine. The music of Belarus was exposed mainly to Russia pop music during
this period and also after their independent in the year 1991. Also, in 2002
Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree requiring about 50% of all the FM
broadcast music to be Belarusian in their origin, and since January 1, 2005 the
rule was made even sticker which is 75% of the daily broadcast music which must
be in Belarusian. But it does not regulate the songs language, so most of broadcast
music is still in Russian.
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