{"id":398,"date":"2006-09-17T05:23:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2006-09-17T05:23:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T19:23:16","slug":"rapping-in-aymara-bolivian-hip-hop-as-an-instrument-of-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Rapping in Aymara: Bolivian Hip Hop as an Instrument of Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align = \"center\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/244727515_d94d8e4b1b_m.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Rapping in Aymara: Bolivian Hip Hop as an Instrument of Struggle<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Benjamin Dangl<\/em><br \/>\nSeptember 14, 2006<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 13,000 feet, the hip hop movement in El Alto, Bolivia is probably the highest in the world. The music blends ancient Andean folk styles and new hip hop beats with lyrics about revolution and social change. As the sun set over the nearby snow capped mountains, I sat down with Abraham Bojorquez, a well known El Alto hip hop artist. We opened up a bag of coca leaves and began to talk about what he calls a new &#8220;instrument of struggle.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Fuckin&#8217; A!<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/towardfreedom.com\/home\/content\/view\/884\/\">More<\/a>&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southendpress.org\/2004\/items\/Cochabamba\">\u00a1Cochabamba!<\/a><\/strong> | <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinlasnet.org\/\">Latin American Solidarity Network<\/a><\/strong> | <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mujerescreando.org\/\">Mujeres Creando<\/a><\/strong> | <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/upsidedownworld.org\/blog\/\">Upside Down Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapping in Aymara: Bolivian Hip Hop as an Instrument of Struggle Benjamin Dangl September 14, 2006 At 13,000 feet, the hip hop movement in El Alto, Bolivia is probably the highest in the world. The music blends ancient Andean folk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-6q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}