Chechnya bans music that's too fast or too slow

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mgladdish
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by mgladdish »

A weird bit of news this morning - Chechnya has apparently banned performing music slower than 80bpm or faster than 116bpm.

I honestly had to check the date on the article to see if it was legit.

artists are said to have been given until 1 June to rewrite music that doesn't meet the criteria - and if their music isn't reworked, they won't be allowed to perform it in public.


<LINK_TEXT text="https://news.sky.com/story/chechnya-ban ... w-13110266">https://news.sky.com/story/chechnya-bans-music-that-is-too-fast-or-too-slow-13110266</LINK_TEXT>

I guess they won't be marching any time soon...
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by BGuttman »

Europeans like to march to slower tempos. They make it nice for us geezers to march as well. Colonel Bogey goes nicely at 108. For that matter, so do a lot of Sousa Marches. You don't have to "high step".

Btw, date is 4/7, but they refer to a posting "earlier in the week" (Fool?)
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by bitbckt »

RB Hall had a limp and subsequently his marches should also be somewhat down tempo, as his band played at his speed.
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by harrisonreed »

112-116 is the typical marching tempo for US military bands, FWIW.
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mgladdish
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by mgladdish »

[quote="BGuttman"]

[...]

Btw, date is 4/7, but they refer to a posting "earlier in the week" (Fool?)[/quote]

Aah, good spot.

I've looked up the Moscow Times to find the article

<LINK_TEXT text="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/ ... mpo-a84755">https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/05/chechnya-forbids-music-outside-80-116-bpm-tempo-a84755</LINK_TEXT>

but it, in turn, quotes from the ministry of culture: <LINK_TEXT text="https://1-mk--chr-ru.translate.goog/nov ... _hist=true">https://1-mk--chr-ru.translate.goog/novosti/soveshchanie-s-rukovoditelyami-tvorcheskikh-gosudarstvennykh-i-munitsipalnykh-kollektivov-chechensko/?_x_tr_enc=1&_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=da&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true</LINK_TEXT>

which was published on April 3rd.

But there was another quote from the Ministry from Telegram. Which I don't have, so can't check for the date of that quote.

So it looks like it's no fool!
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by ghmerrill »

I'm just trying to get my mind around what appears to be an example of woke conservative Chechen culture.
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by brassmedic »

The police will now be armed with metronomes.
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by cb56 »

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by Posaunus »

The Chechnyan Taliban?
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by AtomicClock »

[quote="mgladdish"]slower than 80bpm or faster than 116bpm[/quote]

Shatlak's Song (the national anthem of Chechnya) is either 75-ish or 150-ish, depending on whether you count it in two or four. At least, that goes for the copy on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatlak%27s_Song
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by harrisonreed »

I'm surprised an individual state has that much autonomy in Russia to ban tempos of music. But, maybe they do. And that's what makes this even funnier, right across the border in Georgia:

<YOUTUBE id="5P6-7Rw4xug">https://youtu.be/5P6-7Rw4xug?feature=shared</YOUTUBE>

(You'll have to click the link. Embedding is forbidden)

For the record, they still don't want a Putin.