Ruling means music in Russian republic must ‘conform to Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm’
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim region.
Musa Dadayev, Chechnya’s culture minister, said “all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute” in order to make music “conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm”, according to the Russian news agency Tass.
