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currentmusicology-5196	Ninoshvili, Lauren	The 1990s “Kutaisi Wave”: Music and Youth Movement in a Postindustrial Periphery	2011	22	.pdf	application/pdf	10171	461	52	Westernness per se has never been problematic for Georgian mainstream audiences in the postsocialist period, so it seems that the denigration of Kutaisi popular music can be attributed more to differences of taste and to the implicit, if long-standing, cultural rivalry between Georgia's two largest cities. According to Lasha Gabunia, today Tbilisi residents iden- Lauren Ninoshvili tify Georgian rock, rap, and electronica with Kutaisi, while Kutaisi musicians active in the evolution of these genres regard them as a broadly Georgian cultural development (p.c. December 28, 2010).23 That is, while the loyalty of the latter to their own hometown is fundamental and evident in the fact that almost every ensemble has at least one song about Kutaisi, they regard themselves as Georgian artists first, and only secondarily as Kutaisians.	cache/currentmusicology-5196.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5196.txt