A dozen years ago the Afghan men would have been hanged for breaking Taliban decrees against music by playing instruments like the dilruba or tabla.
But in 1948 composers working in the People's Republic of Hungary were subject to the Stalinist decree banning modern music.
Thus, study of musical history shows a varying attitude toward rhythm, sometimes closer to strict rule, sometimes to "freedom," as the temper of the times and the relative influence of poetry, dance, and folk music decree.
An official decree banning all western music was issued on 22 August by a heavily bearded Islamist spokesman in the city of Gao.
The launch of the free app runs contrary to the previous marketing credo on building a music fanbase, which decreed that an open approach based on social media would yield the greatest possible following.
A Pakistani singer who rejected a decree from the Taliban to end her music career has been shot dead in the north-west of the country.
He revised it in the late forties and early fifties, during the period of the 1948 Zhdanov Decree, which attacked obscurantist tendencies in the music of leading Soviet composers.
Last fall Unesco — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — designated jazz a "universal music of freedom and creativity" and decreed that henceforth every April 30 is to be celebrated around the world as International Jazz Day.
BMI, which like Ascap represents a huge portion of the music available in the United States, operates under its own consent decree, and is governed by a different federal rate court.
Obviously, as the vast majority of Americans are navigating the world of rock music without succumbing in large majorities to these maladies, we can decree that Gore has well-earned her perpetual status as the butt of rock-enthusiasts' jokes.
