Episode 5 looks at the origins, characteristics, and generational evolution of Pothwari, an oral-only language with no written form.

You’ll also delve deeper into some of the hierarchy and class differences that are associated with Pothwari when compared to Urdu or Punjabi. Including the dilemma of modernisation and preserving the ‘mother tongue’.

“There were letters too” – hear about some of the struggles of letter writing for those who could not read or write in Urdu. Cassette tapes offered a more efficient and personal solution, while also providing an insight into the traditions of an oral culture.

Tape Letters - Episode 5 of 6 - Spoken And Unwritten

‘Falastin Zindabad’ a 3 hour sonic offering for grief, anger and action for collectively reimagining a free P@L35T1N3. Recorded live from the kiosk at Salon, Northdown Road, Margate, UK on Friday 7 June between 5-8pm as part of ‘WATCH US RISE’ a fundraiser organised by 101 social Thanet4Palestine & Salon Margate in support of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

Sonic scrolling from recent Instagram posts and stories on the ongoing g3n0c1d3 in P@L35T1N3 is layered with words and sounds from field recordings at the Red Fort, Delhi, India in 2019 during a day of protests and art against the rise of Hindu nationalism in India organised by Artists Unite; while mixing cries of freedom from K@5HM1R and other collected interviews and statements from a personal sonic archive, to attempt to show just how P@L35T1N3 and K@5HM1R are connected in their individual struggles for freedom from oppression, the former from z1oni5m, the latter from the rise of Hindutva. Music includes Dub Reggae, Hindustani Classical, P@L35T1N1@N hip-hop, Fairuz, Oum Kalthoum, archive tapes from Majazz Project as well as a special dub for freedom in Palestine and beyond by Indigenous Resistance

Tape Letters - Episode 5 of 6 - Spoken And Unwritten

Tape Letters

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