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Indian Sun: The Progress And Penalisation Of Ravi Shankar
Oliver Craske
658 Pages
ISBN: 978-0-571-35085-8
Faber & Faber
2020
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Unless, of taken as a whole, you verge on Shankar's countless romances, which could measure to a biography think it over themselves. Shankar's appetites, heartbreaking rather his addictions, say publicly author relates, were say publicly source neat as a new pin both his greatness whereas an person in charge and exclude his conjure and nonsense as a man.
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«Happy birthday to Pandit Ravi Shankar—the legendary sitarist widely known to have played a pivotal role in spreading appreciation for Hindustani classical music throughout the world, as well as for teaching Beatles guitarist George Harrison to play the instrument.» Born in Varanasi, India, in 1920, Shankar began touring internationally in the 1950s and continued performing until a month before he passed away in December 2012. Throughout his career he received countless awards in honor of his musical contributions, which include a posthumous lifetime achievement Grammy Award and the Tagore Award for outstanding contribution to cultural harmony universal values. Shankar was knighted in both France and Britain.
Shankar is credited for promoting jugalbandi, a style of musical dialogue in which he and tablā master Ustad Alla Rakha would trade improvisations. This important collaboration helped to spread appreciation for tablā performance. He also developed a distinct style of sitār performance that many credit as having been influenced by his appreciation for the rhythmic practices of South Indian classical music, based on a foundation of unconventional rhythmic cycles.
Ravi Shankar owned many sitārs in his lifetime. Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, his first instrumen