Tag: Music

Khan Saheb in Kashi

Ustad Bismillah Khan, 1916–2006. In the Ustad’s shehnai lies the note of reason

What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music

Bob Dylan’s recent speech to the Swedish Academy led...

Manchester Showed Us Ritual Emotion & the Healing Power of Song

On Sunday, Ariana Grande played to a packed house...

DHAMAAL, Nobody Can Stop Dance and Music: Sheema Kermani

 It was resistance of the most unique, brave and...

Resist Hegemony of Caste in Music: T. M. Krishna’s Magsaysay Address

T. M. Krishna I am a musician; a practitioner of...

Sangeet, Sapna aur Samvidhan: Diverse Tastes that animate India

Dedicated to Charul and Vinay and their music: the recollection...

Why we should listen to the music of the Holocaust – and that of Syrian refugees

Image: Patrick M, CC BY-NC-SA As the 71st anniversary of...

Talking songs

 An intrinsic part of the society they inhabit, music-makers,...

Remembering Anthony Gonsalves

Midway through Manmohan Desai’s classic 1977 film about three...

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