_________The word prosaic has appeared in 72 articles on nytimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 2 in “In Indonesia, 3 Muslim Girls Fight for Their Right to Play Heavy Metal” by Joe Cochrane:They are Voice of Baceprot, a rising band in Indonesia, a country where heavy metal is popular enough that the president is an avowed fan of bands like Metallica and Megadeth. However, that exposure on social media also opened them up to death threats, which the girls said were made by Muslim hard-liners. “They said that if we produce an album, they would burn it, and some people threatened to decapitate us,” Ms. Eusi said. Beyond the death threats, they also dealt with a more prosaic form of disapproval: “Our school principal is a conservative Muslim, and he says music is ‘haram,’” or forbidden under Islam, Ms. Eusi added.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2017 04:52 UTC