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Aa302 Videocassette a (1998 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale?, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 173 min.

A sequence of sections on music including: music from Mali and Nepal; the Eton Choir Book; composing for films; Indian music; Sundanese gamelan; historical keyboard instruments

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Cosmic Dance of Shiva, The (199 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., £25.00 (+VAT + p&p)

Shiva, the Hindu god of creation, is also the lord of dancers. The timeless quality of Indian art is shown here through Shiva’s dance, which emphasises the unity of all creative activities of man, whether...

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Indian Head Massage (2005)

aka: Day at the Spa: Indian Head Massage

Subject

FE; Health Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), ££5.99

Based on the idea that much of the tension from stress is collected in the head, neck, and shoulders, Indian head massage works by soothing particular areas of the body to relieve tension, and thereby...

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Bollywood and Beyond (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

A video-based training pack offering an introduction to Indian cinema. It is the largest cinema in the world, but only in recent years has it started to gain recognition in the West. The video contains a...

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Krishna in Spring (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...

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Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1990 Video)

Director

Pervaiz Khan

Producer

Harminder Kalsi

Subject

Music

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Discusses Qawwali, a devotional music which combines complex ragas with exultant spontaneity. Its repetitive poetical force has made it an essential part of Muslim worship at Sufi shrines throughout the...

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Classical Music of North India (1967 Film)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The master musician of North India, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, demonstrates a short example of North Indian classical music. He plays the instrument which he has helped to make famous in India and abroad, the...

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Lessons from Gulam: Asian Music in Bradford (1986 Film, Video)

Director

John Baily

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Bradford has a community of 60,000 Muslim Asians. The film is a detailed study of musical culture and education within this community. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teachers and...

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Vikram Seth - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Audio extracts from a radio interview with Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth, originally broadcast as a Meridian Feature on 4/10/1999, In the extract Vikram Seth talks about: his view of himself as a...

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Raga (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Opens with Yehudi Menuhin playing a record of the morning raga ‘Ahira Bhairava’ and shows musicians playing the same raga in their city of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Shows how the complex raga system is...

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