Music that Helped Bring Down the Wall

From the New York Times:

Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain

By LARRY ROHTER

Guitars, keyboards and drums did not topple the Berlin Wall. But for the young people who helped bring down Communist regimes across Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989, pop music was a profoundly subversive force, inspiration and vital tool of protest for challenging and undermining a totalitarian state stricter than any parent.
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They saw themselves as rebels with a cause, punks whose lyrics railing against the status quo often carried a heavy cost, including surveillance and the danger of being labeled social parasites because their music could not be legally recorded, played or broadcast.

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As more and more Cuban musicians stand up against the status quo it is great to know that what they are doing has been proven to make a difference.