{"id":2063,"date":"2019-07-27T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electropixel.org\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:18:29","slug":"muqata-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/27\/muqata-a\/","title":{"rendered":"MUQATA&#8217; A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muqata&#8217;a\u2019s (\u0645\u064f\u0642\u0627\u0637\u0639\u0629) syncopated loops and jagged samples of the sounds of the occupied West Bank are meant as a disruption or a glitch in the system. Formerly a member of the acclaimed collective Ramallah Underground and known as the \u201cgodfather\u201d of the underground hip-hop scene in Ramallah, Palestine, Muqata\u2019a weaves classical Arab music and found sound into his instrumental hip-hop to speak back to the auditory and physical assault of military checkpoints and Israeli helicopters. You can also find him in a new documentary, Palestine Underground, which follows members of a growing subterranean dance culture as they put on DIY parties across Palestine.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 3px; border: none; color: #94bcc6; background-color: #94bcc6;\" \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rnQ4kr1jYrw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muqata&#8217;a\u2019s (\u0645\u064f\u0642\u0627\u0637\u0639\u0629) syncopated loops and jagged samples of the sounds of the occupied West Bank are meant as a disruption or a glitch in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts-9-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}