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Sam
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Being of Indian (south asian) descent, I've always been embarassed for the cultural backwater the country has been. Yes, it has a rich and ancient culture; the problem is with the contemporary development and furtherment thereof. The Western world has Paris Hilton, Auto-Tune singers and bands like The Frey but they are a worthy price to pay for a culture that fosters anything of the kind at all. Individualistic artistic expression simply didn't seem to be valued by society, and it could be argued this is true of all nonJapan Asia.
So imagine my surprise when I found this on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BgnBy2F7Q&feature=related
A band called Avial.
Yes it's pretty derivative, and as someone who sees Radiohead as a musical benchmark this is hardly groundbreaking, but it's real Indian Rock, not just one of the two but both.
This gives me a lot of hope Asia. Maybe we'll even get a generation gap!
if you like the songs, the album is on iTunes. It's somewhat amateurish but really tasteful compared to other Indian rock that I've come across (i.e glorified bar bands/garage metalheads)
I honestly see it as a pretty huge leap for a culture whose music has basically been trashy film songs sung by playback singers or centuries old classical music with a strict adherence to canonical format.
So imagine my surprise when I found this on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BgnBy2F7Q&feature=related
A band called Avial.
Yes it's pretty derivative, and as someone who sees Radiohead as a musical benchmark this is hardly groundbreaking, but it's real Indian Rock, not just one of the two but both.
This gives me a lot of hope Asia. Maybe we'll even get a generation gap!
if you like the songs, the album is on iTunes. It's somewhat amateurish but really tasteful compared to other Indian rock that I've come across (i.e glorified bar bands/garage metalheads)
I honestly see it as a pretty huge leap for a culture whose music has basically been trashy film songs sung by playback singers or centuries old classical music with a strict adherence to canonical format.
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That's pretty cool.
I remember back during the Olympics the CBC doing a story on the Chinese punk scene.
But I credit India with giving the world something equally important: ridiculously over-the-top magic battles involving sorcerous archery, shape-shifting demons, nuclear explosions, and giant monkeys who pick up mountains and literally hurl them across the sea.
Were it not for India's cultural contributions, we would certainly not have Dragonball Z, let alone the final boss magic attack animations in Final Fantasy games.
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India has had a thriving electronic music community for about twenty years now, stimulated by opposite forces of emigration and immigration. You have European DJs going to India to vacation or live for cheap (see: Goa trance), and second generation Punjabi growing up in Europe and bringing subcontinental sounds with them (see: Punjabi MC, Talvin Singh, and Iknowhe'sAlgerianokayjustgivemeabreak Cheb i Sabbah). I don't think it's coincidental that the first two names I mentioned are punjabi; there's a lot of cultural parallels between the hip-hop influence on EDM and Bhangra - both are based in popular folk forms of music with traditional percussion instruments and lots of community participation - so it's not surprising that they'd fuse. (And your generalization doesn't really describe bhangra at all, which makes me wonder if you're just not including the Punjabi in your overall assessment of Indian musical culture.)
Anyway, carry on, I gotta get back to work.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Anyways, this is entirely Western music with Indian lyrics, and completely leaves out the reasons I listen to India music: namely, the scale they use that isn't comparable to the Western 12-note scale, and tabla drums. It wasn't terrible, but I'd rather hear an evolution of traditional Indian music than this.
Then again, that might just be my massive stiffy for Anoushka Shankar talking.
That's funny - I'm a little bit embarassed that America is severely lacking in culture.
Really?
Sure our pop culture is kinda egh... it's our biggest export... but really? We have fantastic music, movies, art... sure our architecture has been lacking the past few decades...
America is no culture slouch.
Maybe I just don't identify with it. There's no ties with America's founding anymore, really. Paris Hilton and Jay-Z are not my idea of culture. Food and tradition are, though.