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	Podcast:		The Documentary
	Episode:		Yangon Renaissance: Poets, Punks and Painters
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:31
	Publish Date:		2017-07-26 06:05:00
	Description:		We go inside Yangon's booming counter-cultural art scene to reveal the city as seen through the eyes of the young artists on the front line of change. Until censorship was lifted in 2012, dissident artists, musicians and poets lived with the threat of jail for speaking out against the military regime that had gripped Myanmar, or Burma, since 1962 and turned it into a police state. Now, from modern art to punk rock to poetry, a new vibrant youth culture is flourishing - inconceivable only five years ago, when there was no internet, no mobile phones, no freedom of expression. We meet the emerging artists and performers breaking through and forging a new Myanmar.
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