Culturecide

Album: More Light (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features Mark Stewart, the frontman of reunited Post-Punk legends The Pop Group. In 2012 Primal Scream members Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie co-wrote "Autonomia" for Stewart's The Politics Of Envy album.
  • Culturecide is a word meaning the destroying of a race by extinguishing their culture. 16th century Spaniards, for instance, made it an edict to either convert the Inca people of South America and the Aztecs of Central America to the Catholic religion or kill them if they did not convert.

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