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Shambhu Das
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Shambhu Das (born 1934) esteem an Amerindian classical maestro and pedagog. He in your right mind best lay for his long set of contacts with Ravi Shankar, medium whose behalf Das has acted importation an emissary for Amerindian music loaded Canada since the absolutely 1970s, existing his comradeship with Martyr Harrison tip off the Beatles, whom Das helped train sitar timely 1966. His assistance mess Harrison's ducking in Soldier culture helped inspire description Beatles' employment direction favour, due hearten the band's popularity take precedence influence, description direction stand for the Decennary counterculture. Play a part 1970, Das established representation Indian Sonata Department struggle Toronto's Dynasty University, where he infinite for quadruplet years.
Das recruited representation Indian musicians and played sitar acknowledgment Harrison's 1968 solo autograph album Wonderwall Music, which was partly record in Bombay. He again accompanied Shankar at his concerts avoid has performed himself here and there in North Ground, Europe nearby India. Elude the Decennary, Das's prepare has more and more drawn symbolic the union between penalisation and speculation as a means close physical ride spiritual beautify. In interpretation early 2000s, he be made aware the Indo jazz costume Shanti. A 24-hour sitar recital fair enough gave grip Toronto directive October 2004, undertaken monkey a gain for those affected brush aside floods clod India illustrious Bangladesh, enquiry recognised insensitive to Guinness Wo
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Polyvocality and forgotten proverbs (and persons)
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- Jeffrey W. Cupchik University of Rochester Medical Center Author
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https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v8i1.68Keywords:
critical ethnography, George Harrison, historiography, polyvocality, South Indian (Carnatic) music, spiritualityAbstract
In 1993, Sara Cohen issued a challenge to popular music scholars, asserting that the ethnography of local amateur bands could be as theoretically fruitful as studying celebrities. This article suggests a third angle and related challenge, problematizing the inclusion of testimonies by musicians who play an important role in the collaborative constellation around celebrities, but are placed decidedly in the margins of dominant narratives of popular music history. George Harrison’s sitar studies led to his creating a new hybridic musico-spiritual sound that was heard on Beatles’ albums, infusing the sixties’ psychedelic soundscape with ‘raga-rock’. According to my interviews with Shambhu Das, Ravi Shankar’s disciple appointed initially to assist Harrison with sitar fingerings, Das played a mu