Episode 46: "If Music Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws..."

Welcome to Episode 46.  We do a deep dive into what happens when governments and authorities ban music, with examples from Trinidad, India, Afghanistan, Russia, and Brazil.  Warren Senders interviews three experts: ethnomusicologist Matthew Rahaim (the 1941-1971 ban on the harmonium on India's national radio system), Derek Beckvold (the Afghanistan National Institute of Music after the Taliban), and Brazilian pianist and composer Henrique Eisenmann (Samba traditions as musical resistance). #censorship #samba #afghanistan #harmonium #trinidad #roentgenizdat #xrayrecords #matchbox #brazil Music and Video Claxton Bay Tamboo Bamboo Laventille Steelband Festival Trinidad, August 4, 2013 Courtesy World Steelpan Trust of Trinidad and Tobago "Music From Oil Drums" Documentary film produced by Pete & Toshi Seeger (1955) Community Steel Band Trinidad, 2013 Courtesy YouTube user emlatham1 Matt Rahaim Interview June 29, 2026 Rajasthani Geet Mohan & Lathib Khan — Dholak & Harmonium Courtesy YouTube user #Healthy King "Jogi Rup Banayo Ravane" Mahomed Hoosein — Voice & Harmonium Ramagraph  572 "Vande Mataram" Vishnupant Pagnis (1940) His Master's Voice – P. 13361 "Tobu Mone Rekho (Remember Me Still)" Rabindranath Tagore (1932) Hindusthan Record Co — LH 98 John Foulds - Essays in the Modes, Op. 78 (1928) Peter Jacobs — Piano Altarus Records – AIR-2-9001 "Bajuband Kholo" Govindrao Tembe — Harmonium HMV 78 — P 8942 Drut gat in Raga Bihag Dr. Aravind Thatte — Harmonium Shri Ramdas Palsule — Tabla Gaanwardhan, Pune, India May 26, 2008 Courtesy Chaitanya Kunte "Gaura Pooja" Vanita Willie - voice Produced by Bunty Singh, Trinidad, 2021 Courtesy West Indian Chutney Music "Mohammed dai nabiyana" Ustad Doray Logari — voice Radio Afghanistan Orchestra Afghanistan: Music From The Crossroads Of Asia Nonesuch – H-72053 Derek Beckvold Interview July 28, 2026 "Ay Doostan" Sarur Logari — Voice MMC Cassette M-659 (1980s) "Afghanistan National Institute of Music Polar Music Prize 2018 Official Announcement" Video by Polar Music Prize "Pahadi" Mohammed Omar — Rabab YAP Cassette R-101 (1980s) "Banghari Neem Khat Na Neem" Pashtun song Abdullah Muqurai (Voice & Harmonium) TAJ Video, courtesy YouTube user Agha "Youngsters Make Music in Afghan School" (2013) Video by World Bank "Ay Dil Ay Dil " Ahmed Zahir   (Voice & Harmonium) from "Ahmad Zahir Majlisi Volume 3" Pashtun Traditional Music for voice, rabab, tabla Courtesy YouTube user SijawalKhan "Chi Pa Sina " (Pashto song) Zarsanga — Voice With rabab, harmonium, tabla, and dholak Pakistani TV Courtesy Imdad Ali "I'm In Love Again" Pat Boone Soviet X-Ray record courtesy Dimitry Seferov "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" The Andrews Sisters Soviet X-Ray record Courtesy Great American Songbook Foundation "Nie Pokiday (Don't Leave Me)" Pyotr Leshchenko Soviet X-Ray record, Courtesy Clay Peek "Hippy Hippy Shake" The Beatles Soviet X-Ray record Courtesy George Khutsishvili Henrique Eisenmann Interview July 8, 2026 Capoeira Demonstration Afro-Brazilian Block Party, 2012 Granville Street  Vancouver, BC "Homenagem ao Malandro" Chico Buarque Brazilian TV, December 25, 1978 "Aquarela do Brasil" Francisco Alves & Mario Reis (1939) "O Sol Nascerá" Cartola & Elton Medeiros from the documentary film, "Meu Tempo é Hoje" "Estrela" Eduardo Gudin & Elton Medeiros Brazilian TV appearance (1999) "Hello" Performed by Devin Ramoutar - harmonium Rohanshyam Deonarain — tabla & dholak Bhisham Harripersad  — steel drum Every attempt has been made to secure permission from copyright holders of audio and video content used in this program.  The use of copyrighted material is for non-commercial, educational purposes, and is intended to provide benefit to the public.  If you feel any content in this episode violates your copyright, please contact us immediately and we will address your concern appropriately.