‘Soviet attitudes framed local culture as backward’: the record label standing up to Russian imperialism

Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent ...
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'Lullabies of the Circassian Grandmother' released on International Mother Tongue Day

Marem Gökhan Şen, the creator of the Circassian Melodies archive, has released a new project titled "Lullabies of the Circassian Grandmother," where he compiled and presented lullabies in Circassian ...
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Circassians in Syria: a deep-rooted identity and cultural diversity

Damascus, Dec. 27 (SANA) The Circassians (Adyghe) in Syria represent a rich model of social and cultural diversity, carrying with them from their original homeland in the North Caucasus an ancient ...