Nationalist themes co-opt Iraqi music, again
Saddam Hussein took over Iraq’s cultural institutions to produce war propaganda songs, and a similar pattern is appearing today.
When doing a critique of a society, music and songs can reveal a lot about the features of a particular period of time in that society.
Based on this concept, it seems that in Iraq, particularly since the former regime of Saddam Hussein took over the cultural and artistic institutions and used them for war propaganda and internal and external incitement, the quality of music and songs has declined from being a social product that expresses natural human feelings to merely a government-affiliated sector.
