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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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Ravi Shankar interview (1989)

Genre

Interview

Rodney Bennett interviews Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar about trying to get people in the West to understand Indian music, how Western and Eastern music can go together, working with a...

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Bollywood's India

Date

24 Aug 2016, 10:03

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Bollywood's India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Contemporary India by Rachel Dwyer (Reaktion Books, 2014), 296 pages, ISBN: 978-1780232638 (paperback), £17.95 About the reviewer: Dr Deimantas...

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Ravi Shankar marks 50 years of concerts (1989)

Genre

Interview

Ravi Shankar, Bengali Indian sitar player and guru of the 60’s interviewed by Carol Allen on his relationship with the UK; his musical theatre ballet (on drugs) celebrating his fiftieth year of giving...

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Ravi Shankar interviewed for Artbeat (1990)

Genre

Interview

Musician and spiritualist Ravi Shankar is interviewed for Artbeat to (roughly) coincide with the forthcoming gala concert celebrating his 70th birthday at the Albert Hall. He talks about fellow musicians...

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Khyal: Classical Singing of North India (1998)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 48 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

Veena Sahasrabuddhe, one of India’s leading classical singers, presents a unique insight into the khyal form and the processes of improvised performance. Using numerous demonstrations, she dissects one of...

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Music

Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode focuses on cheesemaking and street music in London. Howell speaks to Philip Rippon, manager of Paxton and Whitfield cheese shop. Rippon talks about...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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