{"id":202,"date":"2008-06-18T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-06-18T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:45:53","slug":"music-is-our-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/06\/18\/music-is-our-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Music is Our Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The music is our weapon. We don&#8217;t have any pistols any canons or any bazookas. But we have our voice and it is a powerful weapon.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Democracy in Dakar<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After <a title=\"writing about Ugandan Hip Hop\" href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/21\/international-music-spotlight-ugandan-hip-hop\/#comments\">writing about Ugandan Hip Hop<\/a>, we received an email from someone over at <a title=\"Sol Productions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sol-productions.org\/home_copy(1).htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Sol Productions<\/a> who is good friends with the Diamonds in the Rough crew. He let us know about another project related to hip hop and politics, which I thought I&#8217;d pass on to you all. Here are the trailers for their two new documentaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>African Underground: Democracy in Dakar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qeMfZyKVJ8?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"learn more\" href=\"http:\/\/nomadicwax.com\/film\/democracy-in-dakar\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">learn more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>African Underground: Democracy in Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3AARpLQte0A?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"learn more\" href=\"http:\/\/nomadicwax.com\/film\/democracy-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">learn more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think what the people over at Sol Productions and <a title=\"Nomadic Wax\" href=\"http:\/\/nomadicwax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"xLink\">Nomadic Wax<\/a> are doing to educate and inspire people is pretty badass. If any of you know of similar projects related to music, politics and activism, do let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The music is our weapon. We don&#8217;t have any pistols any canons or any bazookas. But we have our voice and it is a powerful weapon.&#8221; &#8211; Democracy in Dakar After writing about Ugandan Hip Hop, we received an email from someone over at Sol Productions who is good friends with the Diamonds in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[17,21,25,31,40],"tags":[86,492,493,505,694,821,1619,1694,1919],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}