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Ananda Shankar, the Glossary

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was an Indian musician, singer, and composer best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles.^[1]

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Best Music Direction National Film Award winners
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Almora

Almora (Kumaoni) is a municipal board and a cantonment town in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

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Amala Shankar

Amala Shankar (née Nandy, 27 June 1919 – 24 July 2020) was an Indian dancer.

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Ananda Shankar (album)

Ananda Shankar is the debut album by the Indian musician Ananda Shankar, the son of dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of the Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar.

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Banaras Hindu University (BHU) (IAST: kāśī hindū viśvavidyālaya IPA: /kaːʃiː hɪnd̪uː ʋɪʃwəʋid̪jaːləj/) is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist, Annie Besant in 1898.

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Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Eastern culture

Eastern culture, also known as Eastern civilization and historically as Oriental culture, is an umbrella term for the diverse cultural heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Eastern world.

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Gwalior

Gwalior (Hindi) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat, electrified sounds, and analog synthesizers.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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Jumpin' Jack Flash

"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a non-album single in 1968.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lalmani Misra

Lalmani Misra (11 August 1924 – 17 July 1979) was an Indian classical musician. Ananda Shankar and Lalmani Misra are Hindustani instrumentalists and musicians from Varanasi.

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Light My Fire

"Light My Fire" is a song by the American rock band the Doors.

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Master of None

Master of None is an American comedy-drama television series, which was released for streaming on November 6, 2015, on Netflix.

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Moog synthesizer

The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964.

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Mridangam

The mridangam is a percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Outsourced (TV series)

Outsourced is an American sitcom television series set in an Indian workplace.

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Rare groove

Rare groove is music that is very hard to source or relatively obscure.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. Ananda Shankar and Ravi Shankar are 20th-century Indian composers, Bengali musicians, Hindustani instrumentalists, Indian male film score composers and musicians from Varanasi.

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Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Scindia School

The Scindia School is a private boarding school for boys, established in 1897, and situated in the historic Gwalior Fort, in the city of Gwalior.

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Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

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State of Bengal

Saifullah "Sam" Zaman (17 April 1965 – 19 May 2015), known by the stage name State of Bengal, was a British DJ and music producer of Bangladeshi descent associated with the UK and Asian Underground movement.

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Tabla

A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.

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Tanusree Shankar

Tanusree Shankar (born 16 March 1956) is an Indian dancer and choreographer.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.

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The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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Uday Shankar

Uday Shankar (born Uday Shankar Choudhary; 8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

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United Provinces (1937–1950)

The United Provinces (UP) was a province of British India and, subsequently, independent India.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Walking On

Walking On is a studio album by musicians Ananda Shankar and State of Bengal, released on 12 September 1999 by Real World Records.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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Western culture

Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.

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World music

"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Shankar

Ananda Shankar, the Glossary

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See also

Best Music Direction National Film Award winners

Musicians from Varanasi

People from Almora

Scindia School alumni

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