Azerbaijan: Streetwise Musical Style Moving into Mainstream

Banned during much of the Soviet period for its counter-cultural potential, meykhana was briefly encouraged during World War II to use as propaganda against the Nazis. After the war, it was again banned. The tradition was kept alive by underground poets who passed it on through informal schools that still exist today.

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