Music, Power, and Resistance.
This issue is composed like a geopolitical playlist, crossing borders without a passport, moving under the radar, infiltrating regimes, and surviving censorship. Kometa explores this “battle song” that is music, a fragile yet living territory where power dynamics, strategies of influence, and forms of resistance play out.
Goncourt Prize, Renaudot Prize, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Albert Londres Prize, World Press, Carmignac, Pictet, Visa d’or… In Kometa, the most prestigious authors, academics, artists, journalists and photographers tell the story of major geopolitical shifts through intimate narratives.
RUSSIA: L’Eurovision et son complexe (Eurovision and Its Complex), by Iegor Gran.
MEXICO: Sexe, drogue et cumbia mexicaine (Sex, Drugs, and Mexican Cumbia), by Dahlia de la Cerda.
IRAN: Happy Tehran, by Reihane Taravati.
UNITED STATES: Bob Dylan, vainqueur aux poings (Bob Dylan, Victor by a Knockout), by Fabrice Epstein.
ATLAS: Les chansons qui ont changé le monde (The Songs That Changed the World), illustrated by artist Vahram Muratyan.
