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Palestine underground: A new face for local radio
How Palestine's Radio Alhara is taking a grassroots approach to shaping a new landscape for protest, culture and local journalism online.
Tan, Ashley http://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/20/palestine-underground-a-new-face-for-local-radio
Publisher: Al Jazeera
Date Written: 20/10/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
Radio Alhara wasn't always meant to be so overtly political. Set up during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, the station was initially formed as a way for the station co-founders – five creatives active within the Palestinian cultural sphere – to broadcast daily radio shows online according to their mood on a particular day of isolation.
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The social space of music and dancing has historically been a site of sociopolitical resistance. In New Orleans in the 1910s, for instance, jazz was the language of resistance for African Americans, who used music to collectively build a culture and movement in spite of attempts to suppress it. In the same tradition, the music and cultural community of Palestine, through Radio Alhara, declares itself a space for resistance against political oppression and tyranny, where they are free despite the increasing restrictions they face simply for being Palestinians. Symbolically, that same jazz, music from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, is heard regularly on the station.
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