By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
Cover art by Zonagirante Studio
Racism is not just an explicit ideology or a violent act. It also operates silently, structurally, and in everyday life. It seeps into algorithms, editorial decisions, the stories that are repeated, and those that are never told. In the face of this, music is not an embellishment or an escape: it is a form of memory, resistance, and affirmation.
Current tunes, Our first playlist of the week stems from a simple yet profound conviction: listening more and better is also a way of taking a stand. It's not about "protest" music in a narrow sense, nor is it an obvious thematic selection. It's about voices, rhythms, and sensibilities that exist and create despite a world that has historically placed obstacles, labels, or silenced them.
Music has always been a territory where Black, Indigenous, mixed-race, and migrant identities have found refuge, language, and expression. But it has also been a space where these same expressions have been exploited, whitewashed, or reduced to clichés. Against this logic, we propose attentive listening, without exoticism, without imposed hierarchies.
This playlist does not seek to explain racism, but overflow it. It does so by circulating vibrant, current, and diverse sounds that engage with the present from different but equally necessary perspectives. Because every song we listen to attentively is a crack in the uniform noise. And because, faced with hatred and exclusion, sometimes the most powerful response is not silence, but more music.
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