How can music bring a country together? It did that for Estonia. This is an incredible movie that comes out today on DVD called " The Singing Revolution".From the TV Barnhart website...
It's the story of Estonia, a country that had two things going for it as the Soviet empire began to crumble in the late 1980s: (1) With a total population of just over 1 million people, it was no match for Soviet military might and (2) its people had a remarkable, centuries-old way of using music to stay a tightly-knit culture despite decades of oppression -- Soviets, then Nazis, then Soviets again -- that made Estonia practically a poster child for 20th-century totalitarianism. They used to sing because they had no other way to express their solidarity. Now they sing because they're liberated and hugely prosperous
Here's the trailer for the movie.
http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi?pg=1&p=2
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