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Forbidden Music (2025)

2025 Documentary

Forbidden Music (2025)
Directed by
Barbara Hager
Written by
Barbara Hager
Starring by
Barbara Hager
Genres
Documentary
Country
Canada
Language
English

Overview

The documentary explores the extraordinary lives of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Mungo Martin and Jewish ethno-musicologist Ida Halpern. Their combined efforts nearly 75 years ago led to preventing hundreds of First Nations songs from being lost forever. They not only shared a deep dedication to preserving the embedded cultural knowledge that these songs held, they had also experienced the heart-wrenching effects of cultural genocide on their people.

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