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Indian Sun

Author: Oliver Craske
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ISBN: 9780571350858
Format: Hardback
Published: April 2020
Published By: Faber
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The first full biography of Ravi Shankar, India's most important cultural figure of the past century.The first full biography of Ravi Shankar, India's most important cultural figure of the past century.
Over eight decades, Ravi Shankar was India's greatest cultural ambassador who took Indian classical music to the world's leading concert halls and festivals, charting the map for those who followed. Renowned for his association with The Beatles - teaching George Harrison sitar - Shankar turning the Sixties generation on to Indian music, astonishing the crowds at Woodstock, Monterey Pop and the Concert for Bangladesh with his virtuosity. He radically reshaped jazz and Western classical music as well as writing film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi, and transformed awareness of Indian culture in the process.

Indian Sun is the first biography of Ravi Shankar. Benefitting from unprecedented access to family archives, Oliver Craske paints a vivid picture of a captivating, restless workaholic, who lived a passionate and extraordinary life - from his childhood in his brother's dance troupe, through intensive study of the sitar, to his revival of the national music scene; and from the 1950s, a pioneering international career that ultimately made his name synonymous with India.
ISBN: 9780571350858
Number of Pages: 656
Format: Hardback
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Published Date: 28-Apr-2020
Dimensions (mm): 153x234mm
Publisher: Faber

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