New category at the Musical Intifada: Music by Others !

The original site of the Musical Intifada, which ran from 2000 – 2007, aimed to bring together all types of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian music, and used to feature music of all types and all nationalities, as long as it was either Palestinian or relevant to the Palestinian cause.

This new version of the Musical Intifada is now reaching back to the good old days by adding a category of posts that does the same, and it is simply called “Music by Others”.

At the right side of the top menu, you will find a button to check out what we have already entered there: we started with a video of Laila Atshan, a blind Palestinian lady who engages in traditional song, a video of Lowkey MC, a video of the Arabian Queen of Hiphop Shadia Mansour, and a video by the amazing Rim Banna.

Variety

This indicates already how we appreciate variety – so don’t be shy to suggest anything that falls within the categories of either Palestinian, or pro-Palestinian music!

It also makes it possible for Palestinians who make music, or for people who make music about Palestine, to have one more venue where they can give visibility to their news about upcoming concerts or albums, or where they can give their music video more exposure.

Interactivity

This new feature also attributes a more interactive role to this website, since we will really appreciate it if you help by contributing articles – but especially music videos – that fall within the definition!

This will only work if the interactivity is indeed used; this is why a big RSS link has been provided with the category, so that it can be shared more easily and so that whatever we feature here may be seen by many others worldwide.

We hope you will cooperate in making this work, and in helping to create a new place on the web which is all about Palestinian and pro-Palestinian music!

Please use the comment box on the bottom of the website to send in your music videos, interviews, suggestions and press releases!

Note: the posts in the new category are not supposed to show up in the feed of the Musical Intifada Newswire. There is a separate feed available in the category itself, which you will see when you visit that section. The settings were not adapted yet, and for this reason the first videos did appear in the Newswire, but from now on they will only appear in the specific feed of the the ‘Music of Others’ category.